On my radar: Claire Denis’s cultural highlights
Sep 10, 2022
3 minutes
Born in Paris in 1946 but raised in west Africa, the film director worked as an assistant to film-makers such as Jacques Rivette and Wim Wenders before making her unforgettable debut with (1988), a semi-autobiographical film set in Cameroon. Her work is broad-ranging, including fiction and documentary. Highlights include (1999), loosely based on Herman Melville’s , and more recently (2018), her first film in English, which starred Robert Pattinson. She has two new films: , which won, and
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