Widely regarded as one of the most innovative and passionate filmmakers working in France today; Claire Denis has continued to make beautiful and challenging films since the 1988 release of her first feature; Chocolat. Judith Maynes comprehensive study of these films traces Deniss career and discusses her major feature films in rich detail.Born in Paris but having grown up in Africa; Denis explores in her films the legacies of French colonialism and the complex relationships between sexuality; gender; and race. From the adult woman who observes her past as a child in Cameroon to the Lithuanian immigrant who arrives in Paris and watches a serial killer to the disgraced French Foreign Legionnaire attempting to make sense of his past; the subjects of Deniss films continually revisit themes of watching; bearing witness; and making contact; as well as displacement; masculinity; and the migratory subject.
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