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Trouble Every Day (18)

My Twisted Valentine

,Cinema 3

Claire Denis’ hypnotic, unsettling film asks: how close is the kiss to the bite?

Dr Shane Brown and his wife are honeymooning in Paris. However, secretly, Shane is in town to track down Coré. The two, Shane and Coré, share a terrible secret, an affliction that turns them into carnivorous predators when aroused.

Greeted with boos upon its premiere at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, director Claire Denis defended herself at a press conference saying she had made “a love story”, a film “about desire and about the unknown areas within the brain, where we go, but would rather not admit we go.”

Twenty years on, Trouble Every Day is understood not as an aberration but as reprising – in a bloodier vein – Denis’ regular themes and impressionistic, sensuous aesthetic. Vincent Gallo and Béatrice Dalle give performances of an extraordinary, feral, intensity – the latter partaking in one of the most electrifying screen ‘kisses’ ever.

Tagged with: Cinema My Twisted Valentine

Trigger warning: this film contains strong bloody violence and strong sex.

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Film information
  • Release year   2001
  • Country   France
  • Director   Claire Denis
  • Runtime   101 min

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