Claire Denis
Claire Denis is a film director and screenwriter associated with French and international cinema in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Her work has addressed themes of identity, power, and embodiment through elliptical narrative structures and sensory filmmaking.
Denis is discussed in film studies, French cinema history, and analyses of postcolonial and art cinema.
Status
Denis’s films are examined for their use of atmosphere, framing, and non-traditional narrative progression. Interpretations situate her work within contemporary European cinema and debates on authorship and representation.