Trouble Every Day

In most of the classic horror films there was some degree of tacit eroticism....In Trouble Every Day director Clair Denis ( Beau Travail , Chocolat ) puts her always original and thoughtful stamp on the classic horror film genre..... ... Full Review

Watching "Trouble Every Day," at least if you don't know what's coming, is like biting into what looks like a juicy, delicious plum on a hot summer day and coming away with your mouth full of rotten pulp and living worms. Yes, "Trouble Every Day" (that's not a translation, by the way; the original title is in English) is a haunting and terrifying film. ... Full Review

s elegant and mysterious as Beau Travail , Trouble Every Day demonstrates director Claire Denis's signature obsession with the human body, cultural rifts and the permissions of sex.....While Léo's enslavement of Coré showcases Denis's signature concern for racial rifts, Trouble Every Day works best as an AIDS metaphor.....The film's unnerving, languid pace is temporarily deadened by a superfluous subplot that finds Shane attempting to make contact with a fellow scientist.....Trouble Every Day is a cautionar ... Full Review

The combination provides the albums' most quietly chilling moments and the piece is so devilishly good....Unfortunately for newcomers, though, Trouble Every Day is not the best place to start their addiction.....That aside, the three songs that feature Staples are obvious highlights and worthy additions to the Tindersticks canon.....Predictably, his return for "Closing Titles" is the dramatic climax of the album and his duet with co-vocalist, Dikon Hinchliffe, builds to a dizzying peak.....This long version ... Full Review

Trouble Every Day is among the finest films of the year....It is a provocative film not for its indelible images, but for the unbearable weight of ferocious right embedded in those images.....Plaintive and sad, Claire Denis' remarkable Trouble Every Day is a rare combination of honesty, beauty, and maybe even genius.....Mesmeric and entrancing, intuitive and impossibly intimate, the picture is alive with craft, intelligence, and the absolute courage of its macabre vision..... ... Full Review

President Obama.Let's just ponder that for a while.Okay. As I pointed out a couple of postings ago , all of this was foreshadowed by the switch in Hollywood's undead preference from zombies to vampires, which should be more... ... Full Article

Halfway through The Brown Bunny -after driving down long stretches of highway-Bud pulls off the road for some gas. He fills up the tank, then returns to the road, at which point many people in the theater chuckle. ... Full Article

Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane''s mysterious and frequent visits to a medical clinic where cutting edge studies of the human... ... Full Article

French people, whatever the fuck might be wrong with them, have in recent years relished the opportunity to show American horror fans that, when it comes to onscreen gore, the French are far from being cheese-eating surrender monkeys. ... Full Article