Close Up

8 - 31 July 2019: Close-Up on Claire Denis

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Born in 1946, French filmmaker Claire Denis is among the greatest practicing artists in the world today. Across her thirty-year career, the inimitable auteur has made a name for herself as a high-minded, philosophical, and extraordinarily ciné-literate film thinker who reifies challenging ideas in purely, powerfully cinematic terms. Her oeuvre, peppered with at least a masterpiece per decade, is one of contemporary cinema’s most mercurial, yet is also undeniably cohesive. She has a penchant for choosing formulaic film genres to frame her stories, only to explode and subsume them into her singular, uniquely Denisian sensibilities. Narratively elliptical, formally experimental, and, when called for, defiantly transgressive, these works tend to circle and re-circle insoluble questions around race, displacement, estrangement, and the terrifying Otherness of one’s self.

We're thrilled to present a retrospective of eight films directed by Denis alongside three features she worked on as assistant director, and a special parallel programme devoted to Jacques Rivette's legendary Out 1 on which she also assisted.


No Fear, No Die
Claire Denis, 1990, 91 min, 35mm
French with English subtitles
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Jacques Rivette - Le Veilleur
Claire Denis, 1990, 125 min
French with English subtitles
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I Can’t Sleep
Claire Denis, 1994, 110 min, 35mm
French and Russian with English subtitles
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Beau travail
Claire Denis, 1999, 90 min, 15, 35mm
French with English subtitles
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The Intruder
Claire Denis, 2004, 121 min, 15, 35mm
French with English subtitles
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35 Shots of Rum
Claire Denis, 2008, 100 min, 12, 35mm
French with English subtitles
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White Material
Claire Denis, 2009, 106 min, 15
French with English subtitles
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High Life
Claire Denis, 2019, 113 min, 18
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Paris, Texas
Wim Wenders, 1984, 147 min, 12
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Down by Law
Jim Jarmusch, 1986, 107 min, 15
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Wings of Desire
Wim Wenders, 1987, 127 min, 12
German, English & French with English subtitles
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No Fear, No DieJacques Rivette - Le Veilleur, and I Can't Sleep are presented with the support of the Institut Francais.

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