Claire Denis

Director, Assistant Director,

Writer and Actress
“A filmmaker who has been able to reconcile the lyricism of
French cinema with the impulse to capture the often harsh
face of contemporary France.”

Directed 20 titles, Assisted on 18, Wrote

15 titles, Acted in 4 titles

French film director (First film was Chocolat in

1988)
Film Professor at European Graduate School in
Saas-Fee Switerland (2002)
Multicultural upbringing: born in Paris, raised
in Burkina Faso, Somalia, Senegal, and
Cameroon
Concentration of films: mostly focus on the
everyday lives of immigrants and
French people of African origin
Style: prefers location work over studio work,
poses people like still-art, uses
stationary cameras more that moving ones
She maintains less avowed political overtness
than subtle multiculturalism and plurality