Claire Denis

A Family – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Author and regular Claire Denis collaborator Christine Angot creates a harrowing portrait of a family collectively suppressing its traumas.

Dahomey – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Mati Diop offers a creative and moving guide to discussing anti-colonialist action in her very fine follow-up to 2019’s Atlantics.

Stars at Noon

By Jourdain Searles

Claire Denis adapts Denis Johnson’s 1986 novel about love in a time of revolution, with fascinating results.

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Why Stars at Noon deserves the Best Sound Design Oscar

By Catherine Bray

Claire Denis' romantic thriller is a masterclass in auditory environmental storytelling.

Both Sides of the Blade

By David Jenkins

Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon deliver the dramatic goods in French master Claire Denis' nuanced exploration of married life.

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Human Flowers of Flesh – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Helena Wittman’s extraordinary seafaring anti-epic is a prime contender for the big prize at the 2022 Locarno Film Festival.

The Stars at Noon – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Claire Denis adapts Denis Johnson’s 1986 novel about love in a time of revolution – with fascinating, if not entirely successful, results.

The 50 Best Films of the New Millennium (Not Based on Existing Intellectual Property)

By Little White Lies

In an ambitious venture, we count down our favourite wholly-original feature films of the last two decades.

Claire Denis and David Cronenberg headline the 2022 Cannes Film Festival

By David Jenkins

This year’s stacked line-up also includes new work Kelly Reichardt, Ruben Ostlünd and Park Chan-wook – but no David Lynch.

Both Sides of the Blade – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon play a couple whose relationship is tested by the arrival of an old friend in Claire Denis’ latest.

Taron Egerton will replace Robert Pattinson in Claire Denis’ next film

By Charles Bramesco

The onetime Rocketman is poised to star alongside Margaret Qualley in The Stars at Noon.

15 films we’d like to see at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival

By Charles Bramesco

With Wes Anderson, Leos Carax and Paul Verhoeven locked in, we’re ready to keep the rumour mill turning.

The 100 Best Films of the 2000s: 25-1

By Little White Lies

A.I., American Psycho and Bamboozled all make the final part of our list – but what will come out on top?

The Top 50 Non-IP titles of the New Millenium: the individual ballots

By Little White Lies

Find out how Little White Lies contributors voted in our critical survey of recent non-IP cinema.

Claire Denis prepares new film with Robert Pattinson and Margaret Qualley

By Charles Bramesco

The Stars at Noon sticks both actors in 1984 Nicaragua, mid-revolution.

The 30 best films of 2019

By Little White Lies

Counting down our favourite feature-length releases from the past 12 months.

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