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 Béatrice Dalle Tricia Vessey Alex Descas Nicolas Duvauchelle José Garcia Aurore Clément Florence Loiret Caille Marilú Marini Raphaël Neal Hélène Lapiower

Alternative Title

Gargoyle

drama horror

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Review by brat pitt ★★★½ 4

sex cannibal food pyramid:
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/ \
/ \
/ pussy \
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/ \
/__________________\
Review by Kenji Fujishima ★★★★½ 2

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 laird ★★★★

Cool documentary about Vincent Gallo on vacation in Paris.
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 ★★★★★

The only film where the usage of Comic Sans is valid

Recent reviews

Review by casey813 ★★★★

Very off brand of my pretentious ass to wait for week 2 of the lockdown to start day drinking and watching weird French films
Review by holli ★★★★ 1

i knew what i was getting into but still...... what the fuck...........
Review by madison ★★★★

claire denis
Review by David Cuevas ★★★

Best part of the film was when Vincent Gallo reprised his iconic role as "flying christ"
thank you claire denis, very cool.
Review by frockeworks ★★★★★

few dialogue, sparse only for texture, not information.
Details, cyclical play of images and people's thoughts that are revealed through their faces and actions and recognisable environmental sounds.
it's terrifying in its realism or lack of fantasy, and also because I learn that blood never truly washes off.
Review by aaron ★★★★

such a hypnotically dark and beautiful film. my rating will probably go up on a second viewing but i love how denis keeps her cards to her chest, not giving us all we want to know. it can become frustrating at times due to its slow pace and lack of dialogue but the atmosphere and themes which are explored and created are quite tender and beautiful. excited to watch some more denis. also vincent gallo is very underrated.
Review by dspringer ★★★½

A bit awkward or stilted in places, and not my favorite Denis movie, but it still gets under your skin. My cousin (who is currently blackmailing me-THAT'S a whole other story) and I both liked it.
Review by barroo ★★★★

everyone else: being a vampire would suuuck you would live forever and have cool powers and like do lots of fucking
me: idk bro...........
claire denis: being a vampire would suck in precisely the ways being a human sucks
me: BITCH......YOU ARE SO RIGHT
Review by mia ★★★★½

Good movie about having a wife