FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Claire Denis - Trouble Every Day  

Yesterday the editorial staff of the "Fireflies" joined us in the video store to present their new edition. A magazine about Claire Denis. I brought up all our DVDs and I noticed Trouble Every Day. A film that was terribly missed in Cannes in 2002. A real scandal that nobody liked! Let's watch Trouble Every Day a second time! Trouble Every Day starts with the arrival of the young couple Shane and June Brown (Vincent Gallo and Tricia Vessey) in Paris. Shane, a young American doctor, is haunted by morbid, bloody sex fantasies, which he can only suppress by medication. At the same time, we experience the fate of a scientist (Alex Descas) who locks up his wife Core (Béatrice Dalle), who suffers from the same uncanny disease, at home. While Shane lives sexually abstinent, Core repeatedly breaks out to kill men by biting them while orgasm. Soon it becomes clear that Shane and Core have a common past... It's hard to summarize the content, because everything is told in a fragmentary way, none of the characters is more detailed and the dialogues remain sparse. Some horror elements, underlaid with the music of the Tindersticks, make Trouble Every Day seem like a cruel love story. A modern vampire fairy tale, whose roots lie in Guinea. Denis was born in French West-Africa and may have worked something like a private culture clash into it. When Core bites a truck driver to pieces, she looks like a creature from the jungle. Shane, with his rigid gaze, looks like a doctor who could frighten an entire neighborhood. But that's not enough for Denis to try an exploitation film. She believes she can explore the deep secrets of cinema: Desire and moving fear. Her film gets out of hand and seems like an unfinished mix of pretentious sex philosophy and necrophiliac romanticism. Without intellectual harshness or exciting eroticism.