35 Shots of Rum

Director: Claire Denis

2008 / 100min / 35mm

Drawing inspiration from Yasujiro Ozu’s 1949 masterpiece Late Spring, Denis’s film about a single, working-class Afro-French father and the college-age daughter he’s slowly learning to let go of—the pair are played by Alex Descas and Mati Diop—is a rich, achingly melancholy domestic drama of telling gestures and glances, its depiction of a crowded café moving in time to the Commodores’ “Night Shift” one of the single greatest scenes of 21st-century cinema.

Distributor: Elle Driver

Part of A Girl Dad Double Feature