Trouble Every Day
Trouble Every Day is a 2001 French, German and Japanese cannibal film directed by Claire Denis.
Claire Denis made a vampire film with no vampires, and it was booed at Cannes.
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A newlywed American neuroscientist arrives in Paris ostensibly on honeymoon and actually to find a former colleague, whose wife has an appetite that has to be locked in a room.
Denis is not interested in explaining the condition. There is a research trip, a plant, a suggestion of a shared cause, and none of it is resolved.
What the film has instead is texture: Agnès Godard's photography of skin, Tindersticks' score, and two extended sequences of sex that turn into consumption, filmed with the same rhythm and the same closeness.
Béatrice Dalle barely speaks. Vincent Gallo is doing something quieter and worse.
It was received with fury in 2001 and has been steadily reassessed since. It is slow, it is opaque, and the two scenes everybody warns about are as bad as advertised.
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Checked 9 Aug 2026
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- New French Extremity, named in a 2004 complaint
New French Extremity was coined by James Quandt in Artforum in 2004. What the phrase covered, and how Cannes and the BBFC handled it.
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