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Claire Denis
Denis in 2022
Born (1946-04-21) 21 April 1946 (age 78)
Paris, France
Alma materIDHEC
Occupation(s)Director, writer, professor

Claire Denis (French: [dəni]; born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and screenwriter. Her feature film Beau Travail (1999) has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s and of all time.[1][2][3] Other acclaimed works include Trouble Every Day (2001), 35 Shots of Rum (2008), White Material (2009), High Life (2018) and Both Sides of the Blade (2022), the last of which won her the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival.[4] For her film Stars at Noon (2022), Denis competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. She won the Grand Prix, sharing the award with Lukas Dhont's film Close.[5]

Her work has dealt with themes of colonial and post-colonial West Africa, as well as issues in modern France, and continues to influence European cinematic identity.[6][7][8]

Early life

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Denis was born on 21 April 1946[9] in Paris,[10][11] but raised in colonial French Africa, where her father was a civil servant, living in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, French Somaliland, and Senegal.[12] Her childhood was spent living in West Africa with her parents and her younger sister coloured her perspective on certain political issues. Their father told them that independence from France would be a good thing for these colonies.[13] Her upbringing was a strong influence on her films, which have dealt with colonialism and post-colonialism in Africa.[14] Her father moved with the family every two years because he wanted the children to learn about geography.

Growing up in West Africa, Denis used to watch old and damaged copies of war films sent from the United States. As an adolescent, she loved to read. Completing the required material while in school, at night she would sneak her mother's detective stories to read.[15] At age 12, Denis was diagnosed with polio and returned to France for treatment. She lived in Sceaux, a suburb of Paris, for the rest of her teenage years.[16] During her time in France, she felt unfit for living in France. She was educated for a life in Africa, and felt completely different from everyone around her.[17]

In 1969, Denis married a photographer she met at the age of 15, after being hired as his assistant. Due to the complex nature of having him in her private life but also as her teacher, they divorced soon after.[18]

Career

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Denis initially studied economics, but, she has said, "It was completely suicidal. Everything pissed me off."[15] She then briefly studied Oriental languages and married a photographer who encouraged her to quit. In 1969 Denis studied at IDHEC (L'Institut des hautes études cinématographiques – now La Fémis) with her husband's encouragement. He told her she needed to figure out what she wanted to do.[15] She graduated from the IDHEC and since 2002 has been a professor of film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.[19]

Before applying and being accepted into IDHEC, she worked as an intern at Télé Niger. After telling everyone that she wanted to apply to IDHEC, they told her, "no, don't waste your time studying, all you need to do is make films here with us".[15]

After graduating in 1971 and by this time divorced, Denis began working as an assistant director for many acclaimed filmmakers. Such films include Jacques Rivette's Out 1 (1971), Denis Dusan Makavejev's Sweet Movie (1974), Robert Enrico's The Old Gun (1974), Eduardo de Gregorio's Sérail (1976) and Costa-Gavras's Hanna K. (1983). After meeting Wim Wenders, Denis travelled to the U.S. to be the assistant director on Paris, Texas (1984) and Wings of Desire (1987). Wenders has said, "Claire was more than ready to make her own films. It would have been a waste to let her continue working as an assistant director". By working with so many directors Denis realized she wanted to make her own films to have more independence and ownership of her work.[20]

Denis's feature film debut, Chocolat (1988), is a semi-autobiographical meditation about a French woman reflecting on her childhood in Cameroon and her relationship with her family's African servant. While making it, Denis began collaborating with Jean-Pol Fargeau as a co-writer. They still work together. Chocolat was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes and praised by critics and audiences as a remarkable first film.

Denis's second film, Man No Run (1989), is a documentary that follows a group of Cameroonian musicians, Les Têtes Brulées, touring France. It was considered an unusual second choice. Her next two narrative films were No Fear, No Die (S'en fout la mort, 1990) and I Can't Sleep (J'ai pas sommeil, 1994). The former is about illegal cockfighting, and the latter is about a serial killer who murders elderly women, inspired by a real case. Her next film, Nénette et Boni (1996), dives into the relationship between an alienated brother and his unhappily pregnant sister.

Denis in 1991

Denis's fifth and arguably most renowned film is Beau Travail (1999). It is about soldiers in the French Foreign Legion in Djibouti and loosely based on Herman Melville's Billy Budd (1888). Beau Travail explores the themes of masculinity and obsession. Her next film, Trouble Every Day (2001), was a surprise, a horror film about a newlywed couple in Paris while the husband succumbs to sexually fueled cannibalism.

Of Denis's next six films, five draw from preexisting texts and films. Friday Night (Vendredi soir, 2002) is about two strangers who spend the night together the night before the woman is supposed to move in with her current lover. It was adapted from Emmanuèle Bernheim's novel of the same name. The Intruder (L'Intrus, 2004) is based on Jean Luc Nancy's short memoir about a man receiving a heart transplant and reconnecting with his son. 35 Shots of Rum (35 rhums, 2008) is another of Denis's most acclaimed films, about a father's and daughter's changing relationship. It was inspired by Yasujirō Ozu's film Late Spring (1949). Her film Bastards (Les Salauds, 2013) was inspired by Akira Kurosawa's The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru, 1960). Let the Sunshine In (Un beau soleil intérieur) (2017) is a romantic comedy inspired by Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse: Fragments (1977). Of these, the only film not based on preexisting text is White Material (2009), which was co-written with Marie N'Diaye. It is about a white French woman in post-colonial Africa who stays during a rising civil conflict.[20]

With films such as US Go Home (1994), Nénette et Boni, Beau Travail,[21] Trouble Every Day, and Vendredi soir, Denis established a reputation as a filmmaker who "has been able to reconcile the lyricism of French cinema with the impulse to capture the often harsh face of contemporary France."[21] She returned to Africa with White Material, set in an unidentified country during a civil war.

Denis has also made many short films spanning a multitude of subjects, such as Le 15 Mai (1969) while studying at IDHEC, Keep It for Yourself (1991) and Voilà l'enchaînement (2014). Her anthologies include Pour Ushari Ahmed Mahmoud, Soudan in Lest We Forget (Contre l'oubli, (1991). US Go Home (1994) is a segment in a series of hour-long films commissioned by Arte. Nice, Very Nice is a segment in À propos de Nice, la suite (1995) and Towards Nancy (Vers Nancy) in Ten Minutes Older:The Cello (2002). Her documentaries include Jacques Rivette, le veilleur (Jacques Rivette, the Watchman, 1990), Towards Mathilde (Vers Mathilde, 2005) and Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded (2013). She also made the short film Contact (2014) for a light installation by Olafur Eliasson, who helped on the production design for High Life.

Common themes in Denis's work include obsession, desire, violence, sex, and the body. It also focuses on the feelings of being an outsider and belonging. Denis has said, "For me, the monster is invisible. If there is a small thread running through all my work, it is that evil is never the other, everything is inside and never outside."[20]

Denis is a highly collaborative filmmaker, saying in an interview, "the film becomes a relationship...and that is what's important, the relationship".[22] The importance of collaboration can be seen throughout her work. She often recasts actors in multiple films, most notably Alex Descas, who has worked with Denis 11 times from 1990 to 2017, and Isaach de Bankolé, who appeared in three of her films from 1988 to 2009. Vincent Gallo, Béatrice Dalle, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Juliette Binoche and Grégoire Colin have also appeared in multiple Denis films. She most often collaborates with screenwriter Jean-Pol Fargeau, composer Stuart Staples of the band Tindersticks, and cinematographer Agnès Godard, whom she met in the 1970s at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques.[22] Asked about her screenwriting process, Denis said, "I often realize I have Isaach or Grégoire or someone else in mind" when writing scenes. She has also said that usually she "hold[s] no auditions" for her films.[22]

Fargeau has co-written ten of Denis's screenplays. Staples has composed eight of her films and Denis has said that he "has a rapport with the body, with flesh, with desire which is very close to mine". Nelly Quettier edited I Can't Sleep, Beau Travail, Vendredi soir and The Intruder. Judy Shrewsbury has worked on every one of Denis's features for the last 20 years.[20]

Agnès Godard is one of Denis's most important collaborators, having worked on 11 of her films as a camera operator to the cinematographer in every film except White Material and High Life.

Denis has said that by collaborating with so many artists she has learned to trust the filmmaking process. She told Damon Smith: "What I got from Jacques Rivette was a complete trust in filmmaking, in actors, in acting...and a taste for endangering myself a little bit...From Wim [Wenders], I got another kind of trust, a trust in feeling very free with the camera and in designing a film not with an aesthetic, but with a complete trust of a location, in the light of the day." She also gives actors considerable freedom. In Trouble Every Day there are two onscreen murders where she let Gallo and Dalle do what they wished after the first scripted bite.[20]

Denis's collaborations go beyond her own films, as she has appeared in other directors' films, such as Laetitia Masson's En avoir (1995) and Tonie Marshall's Vénus beauté (1999). She shares screenwriting credit on Yousry Nasrallah's El Medina (2000).[23] She also worked as an assistant director with Wim Wenders on Paris, Texas (1984) and Wings of Desire (1987), and with Jim Jarmusch on Down by Law (1986).

In 2005, Denis was a member of the jury at the 27th Moscow International Film Festival.[24] In 2011, she was a member of the jury at the Deauville American Film Festival.

In 2006, Denis directed the video for the song "Incinerate" by Sonic Youth, from their album Rather Ripped.

Bastards was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[25] Also that year, Denis was awarded the Stockholm Lifetime Achievement Award at the Stockholm Film Festival.

Denis announced in 2015 that she was partnering with Zadie Smith for her English-language debut film, High Life. Smith eventually left the project, causing a delay in filming. Denis went on to work on Let the Sunshine In, which starred Juliette Binoche and was released in 2017.

In 2018 Denis completed and released High Life, her first English-language feature film, with Robert Pattinson cast as the lead.[26] The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. It later had a limited U.S. release by American indie distributors A24. It was positively reviewed by many notable critics.[27][28]

Denis has been a member of multiple film festival boards, starting with the Venice Film Festival board in 2005. In 2019, she was the president of the board of the Cinéfondation and short films at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2020, she was the president of the board of the Orizzonti section at the Venice Film Festival.

Artistry

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Most of Denis's œuvre uses location work rather than studio work. She sometimes places her actors as if they were positioned for still photography. She uses longer takes with a stationary camera and frames things in long shots, resulting in fewer close-ups. But Denis's cinematic and topical focus always remains relentlessly on her protagonists' faces and bodies. The subject's body in space, and how the particular terrain, weather, and colour of the landscape influence and interact with the human subjects of her films maintain cinematic dominance.

Tim Palmer explores Denis's work as a self-declared formalist and brilliant film stylist per se, an approach Denis has declared many times in interviews to be as much about sounds, textures, colours and compositions as broader thematic concerns or social commitments.[29]

According to the Australian James Phillips, Denis rejects the marketable conventions of Hollywood cinema and frees the viewers of her films from the expectations of clichés.[30]

Denis combines history with personal history, giving her films an autobiographical element.[31] This superimposition of the personal with the historical allows her films to be described as auteur cinema.[32] She has worked in many genres, from horror (Trouble Every Day) to romance and drama (Friday Night).[33] Critics have noted recurring themes in her films, but Denis says she has no coherent vision of her career "trajectory".[34]

Denis has said that she is not concerned with film theory: "I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound... Film theory is just a pain in the ass."[35] She focuses on "human" stories, no matter the setting of the film. Denis has said she does not aim to bring about radical social change or make the viewer feel better: "I'm not so sure films should be made to soothe people's pain. I don't want to be a social worker. I want to share something that is a vision, or a feeling." Her films' main focus is on the characters, often in moments of intense violence and emotion. "Anger is part of my relation to the world," she has said. "I'm filled with anger, I'm filled with regret, I'm filled with great memories, also poetic memories."[36]

Denis has said that the body is "central" to her work and often uses skin, blood, and other bodily fluids to symbolize characters' feelings and highlight relationships between them. In Chocolat, skin is photographed prominently to accentuate the difference between the subservient and degrading nature of the dark-skinned Proteè's forced outdoor bathing and the shameless confidence of pale, white Luc, who chooses to do so. In Trouble Every Day and High Life, bodily fluids are central to the stories, creating visceral disturbing images, and highlighting the films' "sexuality".

Denis has directed a wide variety of films that span most known genres in her 30-year career, but is known for bending a genre's rules, often not obeying traditional rules of pacing or cinematography for established genres like horror, science fiction, and fantasy, focusing instead on the characters, their psyches, emotions and relationships. Though she has made horror movies and romantic comedies and dramas, Denis has never been concerned with making the scariest, funniest, or most heartbreaking films; she is only interested in telling the human story.

Denis chooses the titles of her films carefully. Noëlle Rouxel-Cubberly argues that titles are intended to force the viewer to rethink a film's imagery and that Denis uses them to describe the raw reality of her films. For example, the title of Chocolat simultaneously refers to a racist term used during the period of the film, the cocoa exportation from Africa to Europe through a slave system, and the 1950s French expression "être chocolat", meaning "to be cheated".[37]

Denis is also known for "shooting fast, editing slowly". In general, she does a few takes on set and spends most of her time in the editing room, creating the film there. This post-production process often involves rearranging scenes out of the order in the script. For example, she placed the dance in Beau Travail at the end of the film though it was not at the end of the script. Of this process, Denis has said, "I'm always insecure when I'm making a film. I have doubts about myself but rarely about the actors."[38]

Political views

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In December 2023, alongside 50 other filmmakers, Denis signed an open letter published in Libération demanding a ceasefire and an end to the killing of civilians amid the 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, and for a humanitarian corridor into Gaza to be established for humanitarian aid and the release of hostages.[39][40][41]

Filmography

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Feature films

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Year Title Original Title Notes
1988 Chocolat [42][43]
1990 No Fear, No Die S'en fout la mort [44]
1994 US Go Home TV, from the collection Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge / All the Boys and the Girls of Their Age
I Can't Sleep J'ai pas sommeil [45]
1996 Nenette and Boni Nénette et Boni [46][47]
1999 Beau Travail [48][49][50][51]
2001 Trouble Every Day [52]
2002 Friday Night Vendredi soir [53][54]
2004 The Intruder L'intrus [55][56][57]
2008 35 Shots of Rum 35 rhums [58][59][60]
2009 White Material [61][62][63][64]
2013 Bastards Les Salauds [65][66][67]
2017 Let the Sunshine In Un beau soleil intérieur [68][69][70]
2018 High Life [71][72][73]
2022 Stars at Noon [74][75][76]
Both Sides of the Blade Avec amour et acharnement [77][78][79]

Short films

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Year Title Notes
1969 Le 15 Mai IDHEC film, based on Frederik Pohl's The Tunnel under the World
1991 Contre l'oubli /

Against Oblivion

Keep It for Yourself
1993 La robe à cerceau / Monologues TV series
1994 Boom-Boom
1995 À propos de Nice, la suite Segment: Nice, Very Nice
1997 We, France's Undocumented Immigrants
2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Cello Segment: Vers Nancy / Towards Nancy
2010 On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici! co-director
2011 To the Devil
2013 Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded Segment: Claire Denis
2014 Contact
Voilà l'enchaînement

Documentary films

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Year Title Original Title Notes
1972 New Reports from France Chroniques de France N° 77 Segment "Magic Circus, burlesque"
1973 New Reports from France Chroniques de France N° 87 Segment "Bibliothèque modèle pour enfants, Clamart"
1989 Man No Run
1990 Jacques Rivette, the Watchman Jacques Rivette, le veilleur
2005 The Breidjing Camp TV documentary
Towards Mathilde Vers Mathilde

Second unit director or assistant director

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Year Title Role Notes
1974 The Secret second assistant director
Sweet Movie
1975 The Old Gun
The Golden Mass
1976 Surreal Estate first assistant director
1979 Mais où et donc Ornicar
Zoo zéro
Return to the Beloved assistant director
1980 Pile ou face
The Imprint of Giants
1981 We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
1982 The Passerby first assistant director
1983 Hanna K.
Le bâtard
1984 To Catch a King TV movie
Paris, Texas assistant director
1986 Down by Law
1987 Wings of Desire first assistant director

Awards and nominations

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Year Festival Award Film Result Notes
1988 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Chocolat Nominated [80]
1989 César Awards Best First Feature Film Nominated [81]
1990 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion No Fear, No Die Nominated
1994 Torino International Festival of Young Cinema FIPRESCI Prize – Special Mention Tous les garçons et les filles de leur âge... Won
1994 Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard J'ai Pas Sommeil Nominated [80]
1996 Locarno International Film Festival Golden Leopard Nenette and Boni Won
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention Won
Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film Golden Bayard for Best Artistic Contribution Won
Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film Nominated
1998 Independent Spirit Awards Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film Nominated
2000 Berlin International Film Festival Reader Jury of the "Berliner Zeitung" – Special Mention Beau Travail Won
2001 Chicago Film Critics Association Best Foreign Language Film Nominated
Rotterdam International Film Festival KNF Award – Special Mention Won
Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film Golden Bayard for Best Film Trouble Every Day Nominated
Sitges - Catalan International Film Festival Best Film Nominated
Ghent International Film Festival Grand Prix The Intruder Nominated
2004 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Nominated
2005 Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary Feature Vers Mathilde Nominated
2009 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion White Material Nominated
2011 National Society of Film Critics Best Foreign Language Film 3rd place
2013 Adelaide Film Festival Best Feature Bastards Nominated
Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard Nominated [80]
Village Voice Film Poll Best Director Nominated
2014 Zurich Film Festival A Tribute To... Award Lifetime Achievement Won
2015 La Cabina Valencia International Medium-Length Film Festival La Cabina Award Voilà l'enchaînement Nominated
2017 Cannes Film Festival SACD Prize Let the Sunshine In Won [80]
Film by the Sea International Film Festival Le Prix TV5Monde Nominated
Munich Film Festival Best International Film Nominated
2018 International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) Best Non-English Language Film Nominated
2019 Dublin Film Critics Circle Best Director High Life Nominated
2019 International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) Best Director Nominated
Jerusalem Film Festival Best International Film Nominated
Women Film Critics Circle Best Woman Storyteller Nominated
2020 San Sebastián International Film Festival Golden Shell for Best Film Nominated
FIPRESCI Prize Won
2021 Prix Jean Vigo Honorary Jean Vigo Award Herself Won
2022 Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear for Best Film Both Sides of the Blade Nominated
Silver Bear for Best Director Won
Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix Stars at Noon Won [80]

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