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Claire Denis is a Paris-based filmmaker internationally recognized for her fearless investigation of the human condition with its cross-cultural tensions and family troubles. Denis is a graduate of IDHEC, the French Film School, and served as assistant to Jacques Rivette, Costa-Gavras, Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders. Her debut feature film Chocolat (1988), a meditation on colonialism, won her critical acclaim. With films such as US Go Home (1994), Nenette and Boni (1997), Good Work (Beau Travail) (1999), Trouble Every Day (2001), and Friday Night (2003) she established a reputation as the filmmaker who 'has been able to reconcile the lyricism of French cinema with the impulse to capture the often harsh face of contemporary France'. Denis was a bandleader, worked as actress, notably in Venus Beauty Institute (2000), and directed for French TV. Currently she is shooting a film inspired by Jean-Luc Nancy.
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Claire Denis is a professor of film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts an Intensive Summer Seminar. |
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