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Claire Denis
Birth at
21 April 1948
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Claire Denis was born on April 21, 1948 in Paris, France, but two months after the birth of her daughter, the family moved to Africa. Claire spent the first 13 years of her life there. Fascination with cinema came to her late, and admission to the famous film school IDHEC was more connected with the desire to listen to the lectures of professionals of the “seventh art”. In 1972, she received her degree as a director, making several short science fiction films based on the works of Philip K. Dick
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Claire Denis was born on April 21, 1948 in Paris, France, but two months after the birth of her daughter, the family moved to Africa. Claire spent the first 13 years of her life there. Fascination with cinema came to her late, and admission to the famous film school IDHEC was more connected with the desire to listen to the lectures of professionals of the “seventh art”. In 1972, she received her degree as a director, making several short science fiction films based on the works of Philip K. Dick and Julio Cortazar. Then Claire Denis worked for many years as an assistant to such directors as Jacques Rivette, Wim Wenders, Jacques Ruffio, Jim Jarmusch, Costa Gavras. In 1988, she made her directorial and screenwriter debut - influenced by the desert landscapes of Wenders' film "Paris, Texas", she staged the film "Chocolate", in which her childhood memories were broken: interracial conflicts in colonial Africa of the 1950s are shown through the eyes of a little girl. The film was a success, demonstrated at the Cannes Film Festival, was nominated for the Cesar Award, which allowed Denis to receive funding for her subsequent projects. In 1989, she made a documentary about the Cameroon band's first tour in France and directed a second feature film, "Shat on Death," which addressed the problems of black immigrants in Paris. On the set of the medium-length film “Leave” (1991), the director worked with Vincent Gallo and Gregoire Colin, who later became her favorite actors. In the film “I can’t sleep” (1993) Claire Denis described the true story of the Paris murderer-travest Thierry Paulin. and thanks to this and the subsequent film “Nenette and Boney” (1993) she became one of the notable representatives of the author’s cinema in France. The basis of the picture “Good job” (1996) was based on a free interpretation of the novel by Herman Melville: it takes place in the African part of the Foreign Legion. The film received a large number of awards at various film festivals. Claire Denis then directed the horror film Whatever Day Is Trouble (2001) and the psychological melodrama Friday Night (2002). In 2002, she also took part in the international project “10 Minutes Older: Cello”: leading filmmakers under the guidance of Wim Wenders presented their own vision of one given topic – the theme of time. In this almanac, she owns the novella Train to Nancy.