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Claire Denis

France · Paris · b. 1948 – d. 1962

The choreographer of absence and touch — her cinema is a grammar of skin, glances, and the spaces between bodies. She makes films about desire as a form of colonial violence, about the weight of history pressing against the present moment.

Thematic context drawn from Senses of Cinema. Read the full critical essay →

It's like in Rashomon by Kurosawa. It's not about finding the truth, but about understanding that the truth is always subjective.

On Bastards  ·  Reverse Shot - Interview: Claire Denis