Claire Denis is about to obtain a Profession Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Movie Critics Affiliation (LAFCA) this yr. A press launch introduced that an in-person ceremony might be held on January 14, the place the French filmmaker might be honored alongside recipients of LAFCA awards, which acknowledge the yr’s biggest achievements in cinema.
“We’re thrilled to be honoring Claire Denis, the most effective residing movie auteurs and a grasp at depicting the id crises confronted by each the colonizer and the colonized,” LAFCA president Claudia Puig enthused in an announcement. “A particular sociopolitical viewpoint and anti-patriarchal sensibility infuse her work, which is deeply evocative — typically tender and intimate however by no means sentimental — and at all times uncompromising.”
The LAFCA launch praised Denis’ “mastery of the medium, exemplified by boldly elliptical storytelling and sensual, tactile imagery, [which] is aware of no geographical or thematic boundaries.”
Denis’ newest movie, Cannes thriller “Stars at Midday,” sees Margaret Qualley taking part in a journalist embroiled in a harmful romance with an elusive businessman. It hits theaters tomorrow, October 14, and might be out there on Hulu October 28. “Stars at Midday” follows one other 2022 launch from Denis, “Each Sides of the Blade,” which stars Juliette Binoche as a girl caught in a love triangle.
Described by the LAFCA as “among the many world’s most audacious and adventurous filmmakers,” Denis made her characteristic debut with 1988’s “Chocolat.” Her contributions to the panorama of cinema over over the many years since can’t be overstated. Her most revered movies embrace “Beau Travail” and “35 Photographs of Rum.”
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