Movies: Claire Denis

Over the course of one night near a construction site in Senegal, a group of workers are confronted by a man seeking justice for his brother's death at the site....

This film of interviews with the film director Jacques Rivette was produced in collaboration with Serge Daney, film critic from “Cahiers du cinéma”, then of “Liberation”. In the course of their conversations, the two speakers discuss Rivette’s career...

A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurismäki, Stanley Kwan, Paul Schrader, and Wim Wenders...

Sophie comes to New York from France with the intention of joining a man she met a few months before. She finds herself alone in the apartment of the guy, who left town because he was scared stiff at the idea of seeing her. Originally commissioned as...

Short documentary about an archetypal library concept for kids in Clamart....

An anthology film centering around the worldwide adventures of the Nissan Figaro....

Inspired by the true story of Italian serial killer Leonarda Cianciulli, who in the late 1930s and early '40s murdered three local women in the town of Correggio and disposed of their bodies with chemicals — using what was left to make soaps, candles...

A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history....

Short film based on a monologue by Jacques Nolot which he reads in a pub to a waitress....

The french choreographer Mathilde Monnier and her preparation for her next performance is the main focus of this documentary. The choreography's practices and the bodies, everything is registered in some sort of anthropological way by the filmmaker's...

Twenty-four hours in the life of a young musician, Noël Akchoté, in his dealings with improvisation, technique, money, concerts, studios, guitars, history, independents, majors. Between fiction and documentary, between laughter and seriousness, a "ja...

They are in their thirties. They have now children, an appartment, a work, cars... and still have loves, dreams and passions. They will meet each other, leave each other, under the eye of their kids....

An illusion, or reality? The future, or the past? One girl, or two? Human, or something else? Nothing is what it seems in this post apocalyptic world....

Claire Denis visits Bergman's home, browses his collection, and discusses his impact on her work. Part of Trespassing Bergman....

One of a series of short films inspired by paintings. In this video, Jacques de Loustal's Le Contemplatif or "Duo"....

The film takes the form of a documentary report in which the director Claire Denis follows Les Têtes Brulées, a group of five musicians from Yaoundé in Cameroon, as they tour France....

A handful of student revolutionaries from the Seventies meet up 30 years later to plan a robbery. This is not entirely correct, because they are friends, anyway, and always have been. They play cards together and go to each others’ birthday parties, ...

Claire Denis' contribution to anthology film À propos de Nice, la suite. Denis regular Gregoire Colin is snatched off the sidewalk by some guys he knows, given a gun and an apparently convincing speech (we don’t hear it – there’s no spoken dialogue)....

In an arrestingly filmed interview (with the questions omitted), Denis offers a spirited and insightful discussion of her films and career. She talks about her films, her career, the directors she admires - such as Renoir and Ozu - the writing of Fra...

He is an Aluku man, one of the five tribes of Maroons who survives in the forest during 400 years after escaping from the Dutch sugarcane plantations. All the Maroons are issued originally from the West coast of Africa. They were taken as slaves....