Claire Denis’s Closet Picks

 
“When the great French director Claire Denis stopped by our offices for a visit this spring, she had plenty of reason to be feeling ecstatic. ... And her latest work, a mysterious sci-fi project called High Life, was just a few months away from being selected for some of the world’s most prestigious festival lineups (just yesterday, it was announced as part of the New York Film Festival’s main slate). ... In the above video, she recalls her formative encounters with the transcendent works of Carl Theodor Dreyer, jokes about Howard Hawks making her feel like ‘such a failure,’ and gets emotional about Ingmar Bergman’s Summer with Monika, a wistful ode to young love that fills her with a sense of nostalgia and lost time. ...”

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