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31 Days of Horror: ‘Trouble Every Day’ poetically revels in the silence of addiction

Trouble Every Day Directed by Claire Denis Written by Claire Denis and Jean-Pol Farqeau France/Germany/Japan, 2001 Rarely enabling itself to be clearly defined or labeled, Trouble Every Day is an oppressively quiet and poetic subversion of the horror genre from French auteur Claire Denis. The small cast floats in and out of this Parisian world in an isolated malady …

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‘Essential Killing’ could have been a landmark examination of primal humanity

Essential Killing Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski 2010, Poland/Norway/Ireland/Hungary Polish cinema has long been defined as a cinema of moral concern, with films like Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds (1958) and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours Trilogy (1993-1994) at its centre. Jerzy Skolimowski’s latest film, Essential Killing, starring the eternally polarizing Vincent Gallo, is a searingly relentless …

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