Beatrice Dalle

Like its protagonist, Maggie Cheung's rock junkie trying to climb out of life's basement, Olivier Assayas's "Clean" stumbles. But the film and its heroine (pun unintended) stay on their feet, turning a cool, detached atmosphere and a lurching, zigzag...

3 stars (out of four) Does anyone ever truly change? Can we alter our personalities by sheer force of will? Can we ever leave the past behind us? There are lots of provocative questions embedded in "Clean," Olivier Assayas'lyrical meditation on human...

With such films as "I Can't Sleep," "Nenette and Boni" and "Beau Travail," Claire Denis over the last decade has risen to the first rank of French directors with her incisive, sharply perceptive films. Her latest, "Trouble Every Day," however, is highly...

Without much apparent fuss, one of the last great movie taboos is being tossed to the winds. Recently, in film after film from France and Scandinavia, the boundaries between hard-core pornography and regular art-house movie fare have been all but erased....

Friday October 24, 1997      "Nenette and Boni" is another understated triumph for gifted French writer-director Claire Denis. It is an exquisitely evoked expression of an aching longing for love and family set in working-class Marseilles.      Denis...