Yet it was Johnson’s 1986 novel, “The Stars at Noon,” that seized the singular Claire Denis. The director’s adaptation, which took this year’s Cannes Grand Prix, is available Friday in ...

There’s a story about Claire Denis that I never get tired of telling. The legendary director came to the Brattle Theatre a few years back for an early screening of her brain-meltingly violent ...

Not a word of French is spoken in Claire Denis’ languid thriller “Stars at Noon,” but the voice that rings out is crystal clear. On paper (and the film is adapted from Denis Johnson’s 1984 ...

Claire Denis is the veteran French filmmaker responsible for gems like Chocolat, Beau Travail, and White Material. Her filmmaking style is naturalistic, using real locations, and frequently ...

(The fabulous, jazzy soundtrack by Denis' longtime collaborators, Tindersticks, and the frequent rain adds to the low-key film's atmosphere.) Denis lets scenes percolate and simmer, using close ...

As Justin Chang wrote about the film in 2019, “Denis is a great director, but she’s also a mood. And the viewer coming to her work for the first time will be forgiven for feeling thrown a ...

Filmmaker Claire Denis and British group Tindersticks are longtime collaborators, having worked together since 1996’s Nénette et Boni. Tindersticks have scored her new film for A24, Stars at ...

Deep into Claire Denis’ new drama Stars at Noon, an elemental question haunts the film’s aimless young American protagonist, who roams Nicaragua’s capital city amid a military coup ...

Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who’s a Claire Denis completist (or wants to be). The French filmmaker’s latest, “Both Sides of the Blade,” inspired film critic Justin ...

Claire Denis arrives at her Upper East Side hotel’s sparsely populated restaurant one afternoon during the 60 th edition of the New York Film Festival, clutching a drugstore item she had just ...

A slow burn that never quite bursts into flame, “Both Sides of the Blade” is likely to appeal most to those who are already fans of director Claire Denis. That said, would anyone turn down the ...

For much of Claire Denis’ slow-roiling, superbly acted melodrama “Both Sides of the Blade,” we are in a Paris apartment that feels like a private paradise, a haven of domestic tranquility ...