CLAIRE DENIS : TRIBUTE + "HIGH LIFE"
My First Night & Wow!
She was just beautiful, emotional and eloquent.
The interviewer looked like Adam Driver
I've been a longstanding fan of Claire Denis. This had a Claire Denis Film Festival 1 or 2 years ago at the SFMOMA that I attended. I thought she was larger than life and too high a level of filmmaker to come to the SF Film Festival. I couldn't believe I was seeing her.
She was interviewed for 1 hour by a writer I believe they said from New York. She was gentle as she delved into her emotions and feelings a lot about working with people and her films.
She was asked by Rob Pattinson to be in her film. She was asked why she agreed. She said, sometimes people smile to you as you walk on the street and you smile back; It felt like that. She wanted Patricia Arquette for this role instead of Juliet Binoche. I loved it with Juliet Binoche but I kept trying to picture Patricia in that role and yes! it would have been nice.
This was her first English language film and also Sci-Fi genre film. It didn't feel Sci-Fi it had more of an art house film as her usual films - sensual, sensitive and beautiful artistically. She said she felt like it was more of a prison picture not Sci-Fi. She did talk a lot about how wonderful it is that there are pictures of the black hole just a few days ago. I'll have to review my recording to see what she said about it. This film is centered around a black hole in the universe coincidentally. I recorded the full hour - I just don't know how to load that size of a file from my phone to a website.
(Juliette Binoche - a mad scientist raping Robert Pattinson in a space ship)
Program Description:
“For me,” says master filmmaker Claire Denis, “Cinema is not made to give a psychological explanation; for me cinema is montage.” Those who have experienced works like Beau Travail (Festival 2000), Friday Night (2003), The Intruder (Festival 2005), or her debut feature Chocolat (1988), know the singularity of Denis’ work. None of her films resembles one another, and yet there’s no one else on earth who could have made them. This very special tribute to a filmmaker long beloved by SFFILM audiences will feature a highlights reel from her career, an onstage discussion, and a presentation of her astonishing new film High Life. When asked about her new film’s look and design, Denis commented, “My aesthetic was simple: it’s a jail. I wanted the interior of the spaceship to look like a prison. That was my only radical beginning in terms of aesthetics.”
This tribute to Claire Denis includes a conversation with the director and a screening of High Life.
High Life
Claire Denis, France/USA/UK/Poland, 2018
Anyone familiar with her work knows that a Claire Denis sci-fi film will not be like any other sci-fi film, but High Life is even stranger, bolder, and more sexual than expected. Set aboard a ship populated with death row inmates employed in dangerous space exploration, this masterwork is more concerned with internal galaxies and the black holes of man than interstellar wonders. Starring Robert Pattinson, André Benjamin, and a magnificently tressed Juliette Binoche, High Life also features a mesmerizing score by Denis’ frequent collaborator Stuart A. Staples of Tindersticks.
A Special gift from Claire Denis
As a special attendance gift we received this art piece. A Zine with themes about seeds and space as an accompaniment to the film. I will always treasure this.
April 11, 2019
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