bastards is really intense, def has lots of lynchian dread
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 October 2013 21:54 (ten years ago) link
On Demand today and I have no access or money. :(
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 25 October 2013 21:59 (ten years ago) link
won't c&p it cuz its spoilery but the last few lines of the nyt interview article w/ denis re this is sorta wildly illuminating
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:02 (ten years ago) link
tindersticks also fuckin kills it as per yoosh
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:05 (ten years ago) link
Bastards is sort of a compelling pile of crap.
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 30 November 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
Not her best but not crap.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Saturday, 30 November 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
Don't think Chiara works as a character that well but everything else pretty great. Long Goodbye vibes.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Saturday, 30 November 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
i see a lot of similarities between "beau travail" and alan clarke's "contact". military setting, austere feel, lack of dialogue/exposition
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Saturday, 30 November 2013 23:50 (ten years ago) link
oh I wish it had 10% of the fun of Long Goodbye
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 December 2013 06:05 (ten years ago) link
Well the "fun" bit wasn't what I was talking about.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Sunday, 1 December 2013 06:58 (ten years ago) link
I forget that with cable I get to pay for some of these films for less than at the box office, and Bastards one of them.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 December 2013 02:25 (ten years ago) link
"More fun." Yes, that's clearly what this material warranted.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
Seeing a lot of people comparing this one to L'Intrus in form, which I guess I can kinda see. But it's the version of L'Intrus I didn't f'n loathe.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 14:19 (ten years ago) link
The terseness of her editing is at its peak in the first half; dunno what to think of the last 15 min though.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 14:28 (ten years ago) link
it's the version of L'Intrus I did f'n loathe
the "serious" material is treated with unserious pomposity
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 14:59 (ten years ago) link
C'mon, I love art-house severity as much as the next guy, but L'Intrus was impenetrable wankery of the first order.
― Alfre, Lord Woodard (Eric H.), Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
L'Intrus was impenetrable wankery of the first order.
I think L'intrus is the dream-logic version of a film you might have liked. As if Wild Strawberries had been only dreams, for example, and if Borg were consumed by guilt. It's not wankery when you've watched it a few times.
I liked Bastards, too. But, yeah, the end is baffling. It's crazy atmospheric, yes, but why show us the footage? It's so unlike her.
― Cherish, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
forever since i saw l'intrus but it's a pretty ridiculous comparison to me, here. i was so shocked by the distance between what i was expecting of this, based on cannes reviews & other feedback - basically unusually trained, un-peripatetic torture porn - & what this film actually is (obviously the takehome here is just never read anything reported from cannes i know i know); the film is maybe only mildly more intense than, & in its reach & perspective is very similar to, j'ai pas sommeil. i wonder whether the part of the response that considers this just compelling trash is really just all of the thread involving the gun, & its denouement, which: yeah are their own little kinda noir episode. but there was still a lot to like about this. it gave me enough pause & space & stimulus to circle around everything you see in a way more interesting way than we've ever otherwise accustomed to. like the lindon performance is really interesting, i think. everybody laughed when he snapped off some of the baguette. the sex made me feel emasculated, & that it was so convincing of him & so distressing at more of a distance (for me). & she's just so confident with every other small role - the little boy, the bruno forestier guy ("jerk me off"), &c.
found it really interesting to see her working with digital; i thought maybe a third of it was jarring - like the shots of alex descas - & at other points she was in this beautiful new mode, the scene on the boat, lindon talking in the back of the car, & man a couple of really exquisite, i-guess-chris-doyle-ish shots like the opening rain.
― love mike love (ko komo) (schlump), Saturday, 14 December 2013 02:49 (ten years ago) link
But, yeah, the end is baffling. It's crazy atmospheric, yes, but why show us the footage? It's so unlike her.
i really disagree with this! i think she's obviously very committed to a kind of panorama, which trusts somebody to leave out the specifics, but i don't think that's noticably elliptical or shy. there are shots in 35 rhums & i'm just gonna assume from memory trouble every day that aren't dissimilar, & for it to bookend the film confrontationally feels like a necessary element of what the film was about, particularly given the reference points of like the unindictable DSK, &c.
― love mike love (ko komo) (schlump), Saturday, 14 December 2013 02:52 (ten years ago) link
#http://www.screendaily.com/news/production/claire-denis-zadie-smith-wild-bunch-on-space-mission/5089891.article?blocktitle=LATEST-FILM-NEWS&contentID=40562
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Monday, 29 June 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
Pattinson is "attached"
http://www.screendaily.com/news/robert-pattinson-to-star-in-claire-denis-sci-fi/5092092.article
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 August 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link
olafur eliasson being involved is orders of magnitude more exciting imo
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Sunday, 30 August 2015 03:58 (nine years ago) link
Anyone seen Let the Sunshine In? Gonna do so tomorrow. Pinkerton loves it:
The true testimony to the preeminence of Let the Sunshine In is not in its selection of themes, but in its remarkable attention to the fine grain of human behavior. Put plainly, I know of few filmmakers who bring to bear an emotional and cinematographic intelligence and attention from scene to scene that is comparable to that of Denis. (I have interviewed the filmmaker only once, and her keen insistence of cross-examining my clumsily worded questions until they achieved absolute precision of language still keeps me up nights.) The drawn-out pas de deux between Isabelle and her actor friend is a perfect illustration of Denis’s craft, a low-key set piece that invests with aching feeling the proximity of two hands and the possibilities that this proximity suggests, the inherent erotic tension of an idling car, and the comical pretext of a nightcap champagne bottle left unopened on a living room coffee table.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 May 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
Yeah, it's pretty fucking good. Perhaps not Denis' best, but good. Her run from 1999-2009 is a pretty stunning ten years of filmmaking.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 9 May 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
Loved it!!!
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 01:54 (six years ago) link
lots of hate on my Letterboxd feed; i think it's easily her best since 35 Rhums
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 27 May 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
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― flopson, Thursday, 28 June 2018 01:55 (six years ago) link
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― flopson, Thursday, 28 June 2018 02:00 (six years ago) link
Had a second go at The Intruder, 13 years after the first. Still somewhat baffled, but variations on a theme of searching for a heart and a son, I guess? At least one great joke: "Do you want a glass of water?" followed by a cut to the rolling ocean.
DP Agnes Godard was there for a Q&A (35mm, Lincoln Center) and said "I miss the negative... digital is mathematic, film is intuitive." And a quintessential LincCtr old woman in the back third of the theater couldn't help herself even before the audience was called on, shouting "WHAT IS THE FILM ABOUT!?!"
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
Lol
― 3-Way Tie (For James Last) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
i really fucking hate old people for someone who almost is one
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:35 (six years ago) link
She's not wrong.
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
you and the Upper West Side Golden Girls are united on this one
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 29 July 2018 16:49 (six years ago) link
Lol, I asked Claire Denis a question at one of those Q&As once, but that was when I was much further from approaching my dotage.
― 3-Way Tie (For James Last) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 July 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
that feeling when you learn A24 bought Claire Denis’ HIGH LIFE and is planning a big theatrical release. pic.twitter.com/VgMN9kb7uQ— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) September 12, 2018
:)
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 September 2018 17:22 (six years ago) link
I found it kinda... dumb?
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5964-claire-denis-s-high-life
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 October 2018 14:44 (five years ago) link
Blind spot for me so I started chronologically watching her filmography at the weekend.
Chocolat is stunning - a great companion piece to Wargnier's (lesser but still v good) Indochine which I watched the other week. I love the exploration of the post-colonial feeling of, I don't know the best word, "rootlessness" maybe? All this has reminded me to have a rewatch of Zama now it's out on DVD.
Nearly more impressed with the fact that no animals were hurt during S'en fout la mort than the actual film. Didn't quite expect the subtleness and I can tell I will be chewing on the ideas here for a while.
― I like Poeltls (fionnland), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
Beau Travail wonderfully beguiling
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 17:42 (five years ago) link
J'ai pas sommeil rolled along very nicely but I was definitely enjoying the wandering direction and little glances of the whole thing more before the murder plot came to the fore.
U.S. Go Home was unexpectedly very fun but delicate where required - a few lovely sequences. The brother's spazz out dance sequence is superb, as is the Dad dancing at the lame party. Got a bit of an American Graffiti vibe. Unexpected Vincent Gallo!
you so inhabit the mood of a girl attending a party that has excited while on the horizon but which disappoints and leaves one directionless while attending. there is a scene of two girls being kind of loud on a bus, & you are even 'with' them then, understanding them, remembering. it unfolds so gracefully.i probably would have got around to catching this sooner had someone told me how much of it was dancing. really a canonical teenage film, i think (would have to build up the rest of this canon, but: seventeen, paranoid park, ..?)― honest weights, square dealings (schlump),
i probably would have got around to catching this sooner had someone told me how much of it was dancing. really a canonical teenage film, i think (would have to build up the rest of this canon, but: seventeen, paranoid park, ..?)
― honest weights, square dealings (schlump),
schlump nailed it. Highly recommend.
― Clam up, seal dick (fionnland), Monday, 19 November 2018 23:34 (five years ago) link
just watched Friday Night........ well holy shit.
― flappy bird, Friday, 11 January 2019 04:56 (five years ago) link
One of my absolute faves by her. Hard to believe the same filmmaker made that silly, recent and overrated one with Binoche.
― So, This Leaked (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 11 January 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
I like both fine.
I remember her doing a Q&A at the NYFF for Friday Night, which is based on a novel by Emmanuèle Bernheim. Someone asked, "Why did these two people fall in love?"
CD replied, "Because the book said so."
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 January 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
xp Friday Night felt completely of a piece with Let the Sunshine In... certainly superior, in every way, a masterpiece, it's more surprising that the same filmmaker made White Material, Trouble Every Day, and 35 Rhums.
― flappy bird, Friday, 11 January 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
why do you say that flappy (I haven't seen Vendredi Soir)
longish article and interview here:
http://cinema-scope.com/features/soft-and-hard-claire-denis-on-high-life/
I bailed on it once I realised it was v. spoilery.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 11 January 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
Xp Funny I really l see the similarities between Vendredi Soir, and 35 Rhums. Trouble Every Day is her massive outlier for me, both in style and quality, and it’s a fine movie.
Still need to see Bastards, Let the Sunshine In, and High Life.
― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Friday, 11 January 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
just that Friday Night is so impressionistic and painterly. the similarity to LTSI is just in the way she shoots naked bodies up close. there's more plot in LTSI, in Friday Night there's hardly any.
― flappy bird, Friday, 11 January 2019 19:27 (five years ago) link
Yeah, to me Friday Night and 35 Rhums exist almost as companion pieces to each other.
― So, This Leaked (Capitaine Jay Vee), Friday, 11 January 2019 19:28 (five years ago) link
I saw it for the first time recently but I need to watch 35 Rhums again, I wasn't really in the best mood & was pretty distracted. Didn't realize it was an update of Late Spring until later but the similarities are obvious, especially that final shot (which is great).
― flappy bird, Friday, 11 January 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
I never made the connection between 35 Rhums and Late Spring before
― Dan S, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 00:43 (five years ago) link
I need to watch it again too, I've only recently come to understand the pleasure of watching her films, when I first started they seemed so oblique and subtle it was hard for me to latch on to them.
― Dan S, Wednesday, 23 January 2019 01:06 (five years ago) link