Trouble Every Day

2001 Directed by Claire Denis

The hunger to love.

Two American newlyweds in Paris experience a love so strong, it almost devours them.

Vincent Gallo Tricia Vessey Béatrice Dalle Alex Descas Florence Loiret Caille Nicolas Duvauchelle Raphaël Neal José Garcia Hélène Lapiower Marilú Marini Aurore Clément Bakary Sangaré Lionel Goldstein Céline Samie Arnaud Churin Slimane Brahimi Alice Houri Véra Chidyvar Csilla Lukacs-Molnar Nelly Zargarian Rosa Nikolic Lacrita Massix Myriam Theodoresco Alexandre Uzureau de Martynoff Laure Guérard Albert Szpiro

Alternative Title

Gargoyle

drama romance horror

101 mins More details at IMDb TMDb Report this film

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Review by brat pitt ★★★½ 3

sex cannibal food pyramid:
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/ pussy \
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/__________________\
Review by laird ★★★★

Cool documentary about Vincent Gallo on vacation in Paris.
Review by Kenji Fujishima ★★★★½ 3

An alternately lyrical and brutal vision of desire as pure lust, with cannibalism envisioned as the end result of tossing off one's inner humanity in favor of animal instinct. But then, isn't that what sex essentially is, in some ways? Not that Claire Denis is puritanical about sex; Trouble Every Day is framed not merely as the typical slasher-movie "sex = death" equation, but more as a blood-and-thunder struggle between thought and feeling, scientific detachment and Romantic passion. Certainly, I can't remember the last time I saw a film that featured a shot as uncanny as one here in which the camera roved along the body of a nude male soon-to-be-victim and somehow conveyed both omniscient clinical analysis and chomping-at-the-bit sexual desire at the same time. As annihilating as that desire might be in Denis's world, the film's own tantalizing/disturbing endpoint suggests that it may also be perversely cathartic as well.
Review by Aaron ★★★½ 9

Part of Hoop-Tober
“I want to go home.” “Okay.”
I am not a person who generally remembers his dreams. I must have them, of course. I slip into REM sleep like anyone else. But my dreams, whatever they may be, tend to escape me. Probably just as well. My waking thoughts are enough to deal with as it is.
Occasionally a snippet or two of my slumbering fantasies will remain at daybreak. An image, an isolated moment. Something memorable enough to be remembered—perhaps beautiful, perhaps disturbing, perhaps both—but divorced from context, however surreal or mundane that might have been. It’s frustrating, like finding a puzzle piece with no puzzle; it’s haunting, like a ghost that only stares but doesn’t speak.…
Review by Jake Cole ★★★★½ 2

What once struck me as a minor, if still quintessential, Denis film now seems one of her very best. Yes, there is terrifying gore here—I will never shake the scene of Dalle turning erotic bites into murder, the camera increasingly isolating her mouth into a too-large maw of animalism and diastema as her mark whimpers, screams and rattles—but this is not so neat a fit into the New French Extremity as it seems. Above all this applies Denis's deep visual understanding of the tangle of Eros and Thanatos to its purest form, and it should come as no surprise that she plumbs the depths of Victorian tropes to depict this web of eroticized death. Coré is Jane Eyre's Bertha, locked…
Review by Hibiscus ★★★★★ 2

The only film where the usage of Comic Sans is valid
Review by iana ★★★★½ 1

can’t say i’ve seen HIGH LIFE, but y’all were surprised by how weird it was when TROUBLE EVERY DAY exists?
Review by Hollie Horror ★★★½ 10

Tindersticks provide music that compliment the breathtaking cinematography of Agnès Godard and the atmospheric direction of Claire Denis, making Trouble Every Day what it is, a piece of moving art just waiting to be interpreted.
Besides the stylistic perfection, Vincent Gallo uses his natural creepiness to master the art of being troubled, distraught, desperate and insatiable. This movie suited him so well. And Béatrice Dalle? Everything suits her.
I liked that the vague touch of vampirism was shown in a rather different light. It isn't something to be romanticized, the "vampires" aren't necessarily desirable to the audience and are desirable only for a short while to their victims. They have intense sexual needs which result in visceral desecration, their desires…
Review by siobhan ★★★★

the only Trouble i have with this movie is that comic sans title card font
Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★½ 2

Doom and gloom brooding atmosphere with very little dialogue instead it relies heavily on tantilizing imagery and actors whose screen presence and commanding performances can chill and thrill you without uttering a single word!
It is purposely slow paced! It has a restrained kill count! The film is more about creating a dark atmosphere to set the right tone for a film about people whom have a disease which can be best described as Sexual Cannibals, their urge to cannibalize is triggered by the sex act!
While the kill count is low there are two kill scenes one with Vincent Gallo and the other with Beatrice Dalle that will chill you to the bone! Beatrice Dalle's scene was particularly gruesome!…
Review by Owen ★★★★½ 6

broke: raw me baby
woke: raw (2016) me baby
Review by jaime ✨ ½

having a bath and then seeing ur husband standing over you and you realise he's vincent gallo? immediate divorce

Recent reviews

Review by Pedro Vargas ★★★★

difícil de justifica-lo. Mas me interessa a forma como Claire Denis consegue mexer fisicamente nas entranhas do espectador, como usa da imagem do corpo, do som. da trilha e dos planos detalhes . Assisti quase em seguida de U.S Go Home. filmes tão diferentes, mas bastante parecidos. Ambos te levam por meio de um ritmo corporal no decorrer da narrativa, trazem a sensação de a câmera ser o olhar do espectador ao mesmo tempo que das próprias personagens, mistura assim nós com eles.
Escrevendo sem pensar muito, mas vou pensar mais
Review by Caitlin Stow ★★½

I think I see what it’s trying to say? Maybe? Beautifully shot with an awesome soundtrack, but the pace nearly put me to sleep and the very rough rape scene was super hard to watch (necessary for story and message, but very long and unflinching).
Review by dripdrip ★★★★½

how i feel every day
Review by Abril ★★★

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Review by nicetry0 ★★★

vincent gallo as genius scientist is god tier casting as brechtian defamiliarization
Review by Antonio Vilela ★★★

Se quema a fuego lento: un grito de ansiedad sostenido, con momentos violentos que se "justifican". Es un señalamiento a nuestras raíces, que muy difícilmente pueden cambiar cuando ya están establecidas en nosotros mismos.
No la recomendaría a todo el mundo, pero sin duda, es muy interesante para quien busque algo más allá de lo simplista y evidente. Tiene escenas trasngresoras.
Review by emily ★★★★★

second movie i’ve watched about french cannibals
Review by isabela de melo ★★★½

claire denis !
Review by nick ★★★★

this movie is actually sexy but you guys just like to kink-shame
Review by arpfaust ★★★★½

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Doet heel erg denken aan Raw (2016) maar dan nog explicieter
Review by Quinn Armstrong ★★

Pretty close to winning Annoying Arthouse Cliche Bingo (Unmoored for the first 30 minutes, self-conscious grossout violence, “intentionally” stiff performances), but features a couple top notch sequences and some killer editing.
Also either that cum shot accidentally used too much moisturizer or Vincent Gallo is the most virile man who ever lived.
Review by pbernst ★★★½

Se acuerdan cuando era el 2004 y todos los chicos se querian parecer a Vincent Gallo?
Estaba bien o estabamos confundidos?