Claire Denis

French director Claire Denis (*1948) made her full length debut Chocolate when she was forty; for many years she was assistant director. She was carefully choosing the projects that she was part of and cooperated with many important artists of modern cinematography: Wim Wenders, Dušan Makavejev, Jim Jarmush, John Cassavetes and Jacques Rivette. In the nineties Claire Denis initiated a unique sensual filmmaking based on visual narration denying classic editing and usual narrative mechanisms. She coparticipated in general stylistic renaissance (along with such authors as Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Ming-liang or Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – the films are made in very quiet and artistic way concentrating on bodies in front of the camera. Denis prefers “body talk” and hypnotic flow of images to dialogues; sometimes is hard to tell if those images are subjective or objective. The selection of films in retrospective section concentrated on introduction of movies that were impossible to find in Czech Republic; therefore the most famous films of Claire Denis (The Intruder, Trouble Every Day, Good Work) weren’t included.

Helena Bendová

Chocolate Claire Denis

No Fear, No Die Claire Denis

I´m Not Sleepy Claire Denis

Nénette and Boni Claire Denis

Friday Night Claire Denis

Datum	Čas	Film	Město	Délka	Poznámka
Út 2. 12. 2008	21.00	No Fear, No Die	Brno (Art)	90 min.
St 3. 12. 2008	21.00	I´m Not Sleepy	Brno (Art)	110 min.
Čt 4. 12. 2008	21.00	Nénette and Boni	Brno (Art)	103 min.
Pá 5. 12. 2008	21.00	Friday Night	Brno (Art)	90 min.
So 6. 12. 2008	18.00	Chocolate	Brno (Scala)	105 min.
Čt 11. 12. 2008	20.30	No Fear, No Die	Prague (Světozor)	90 min.	Small Hall
Pá 12. 12. 2008	20.30	Friday Night	Prague (Světozor)	90 min.	Small Hall
So 13. 12. 2008	18.30	Chocolate	Prague (Světozor)	105 min.
So 13. 12. 2008	20.30	Nénette and Boni	Prague (Světozor)	103 min.	Small Hall
Ne 14. 12. 2008	20.30	I´m Not Sleepy	Prague (Světozor)	110 min.	Small Hall