Trouble Every Day

Director: Claire Denis, Claire Denis, Claire Denis, Claire Denis, Claire Denis, Claire Denis

2001 / 102min / 35mm

Unflinchingly gory and pitch dark, Trouble Every Day shocked audiences at its 2001 Cannes Film Festival debut with its graphic depiction of carnal hunger as a cannibalistic disease. American newlyweds Shane and June Brown (Vincent Gallo and Tricia Vessey) travel to Paris for what’s meant to be a honeymoon—but once there, Shane begins a search for his former colleague, Leo (Alex Descas), who might be in possession of a cure to a tropical virus that makes both Shane and Leo’s wife (Béatrice Dalle) turn into carnivorous predators when aroused. Through Godard’s lens, the City of Lights acquires a charnel house atmosphere and a pervasive chill you can feel right down to the marrow.