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DESCRIPTION:To meet Claire Denis is to encounter a moviemaker in exquisite
  harmony with her films. Her naturally regal bearing carries and transmits
  an equally natural earthiness (which you can hear in her rough laughter)\
 , just as her becalmed camera is never less than ravenous for earth\, sky\
 , wind\, water\, and above all\, humanity. The immediate intimacy reflecte
 d in Claire’s smile is there in the family meal in 35 Shots of Rum\; her
  nomadic sensibility is manifested in the restless transcontinental moveme
 nt of The Intruder\; her curiosity and focus (she always speaks with utmos
 t concision) are fully apparent in her precise rendering of interior unrea
 lity in the face of deteriorating exterior circumstances in White Material
 . \n\nIt has been heartening to witness Claire’s artistic progression ac
 ross the years\, and to consider the vast amount of territory\, physical a
 nd spiritual\, that she’s covered within each individual film and throug
 hout her entire oeuvre. Her body of work plays in the imagination as a won
 derfully varied and unpredictable universe of behaviors\, environments and
  emotional and visual textures\, not unlike the impression left by Bruegel
 ’s canvases. Every film appears to be the result of an exploratory proce
 ss\, one that creates a special logic of character and place\, along with 
 one constant: nothing in humanity is fixed. Grace and roughness and tender
 ness and brutality and patience and impatience are coexistent. \n\nThere a
 re passages in Claire’s work unlike anything else in movies\, such as th
 e enchanted Paris of 35 Shots of Rum\, which breathes with a warm\, lived-
 in beauty. Trouble Every Day is the most delicately concentrated rendering
  of atavism imaginable. Beau travail goes so deep into the world of male c
 amaraderie and order that it appears to have been generated from the insid
 e out\, projected from the psyches of Denis Lavant’s Galoup and Michel S
 ubor’s Commander Forestier onto the sun-drenched landscapes of Djibouti.
  With The Intruder and White Material\, she finds a near abstract\, incant
 atory power that merges in the mind with that of Faulkner. \n\nIn 2009\, w
 e ran an end-of-decade section in Film Comment\, and when it came time for
  me to name my “Film Person of the Decade\,” there didn’t seem to be
  any other choice. To know Claire Denis’ work over the last two decades 
 has been a privilege. Artists this attuned to the rhythms of existence com
 e along all too rarely. \n\n—Kent Jones \n\n\nOn November 17\, Claire De
 nis comes to the Walker for a Regis Dialogue with Kent Jones\, a filmmaker
  and writer who serves as editor-at-large at Film Comment and artistic dir
 ector of the World Cinema Foundation. Over the past 22 years\, the Walker 
 Art Center's Regis Dialogue and Retrospective programs have brought some o
 f today’s most innovative and influential filmmakers to the Walker Cinem
 a to talk in-depth about their work.
LOCATION:Walker Cinema\n
SUMMARY:Claire Denis: Unpredictable Universe
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URL:http://www.walkerart.org/calendar/2012/claire-denis-unpredictable-univ
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