Trouble Every Day
Director: Claire Denis
Year Released: 2001
Rating: 2.5
Denis' take on sexual sickness, with a group of lonely and deranged individuals reaching out for love/sexual intimacy and ending up in a bloodbath. Brazen and moody film doesn't say a whole hell of a lot - it doesn't even finish up its own story, leaving the characters at the end the same as they were before - but goes really, really far on mood and atmosphere (its dialogue and scientific discussion are clearly not its strong points). Denis may not be the most intellectual of filmmakers, but she is one of the finest stylists working right now and adroit at handling her painfully sad characters - she draws empathy, for example, out of an introverted hotel maid ... but keeping with the film's ideas, the maid's inevitable encounter with Gallo (who she appears to have a crush on) only ends in a violent disaster.
