Films Directed by Claire Denis (Study Guide) - 35 Shots of Rum, Chocolat, Trouble Every Day, Ten Minutes Older, Beau Travail, I Can't Sleep (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: 35 Shots of Rum, Chocolat, Trouble Every Day, Ten Minutes Older, Beau Travail, I Can't Sleep, the Intruder, Vendredi Soir, Nenette et Boni, No Fear, No Die. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: 35 Shots of Rum (French: ) is a 2008 film, directed by Claire Denis. It screened at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, and was shown outside of competition at the Venice Film Festival. It was later released to limited theaters in 2009. Claire Denis was in part inspired by Yasujiro Ozu's Late Spring. Lionel, a widower who drives RER trains for a living, has raised his daughter Josephine alone for many years. They have always shared a special bond and live a secure and contented life somewhat isolated from others, in an apartment building in a suburb of Paris. Josephine, an anthropology student, is now grown and become a young woman but remains deeply devoted to her father. Noe is a moody young man living alone with his cat in the same apartment building. He leads a disorganized life and goes abroad often. His sole reason for remaining in the building is Josephine, whom he has feelings for but he is temperamentally unable to commit to. Gabrielle, a cab driver and another neighbor, who once had a love affair with Lionel appears to still harbor feelings for him and motherly feelings towards Josephine, but both father and daughter are ambivalent toward anything more than a casual friendship outside their special relationship. Lionel attends a retirement party for a colleague and friend where he declines to attempt the customary feat of downing 35 shots of rum perhaps waiting for a more appropriate moment. This colleague appears to be lost without his job and Lionel realizes that time is moving on and he (Lionel) must...http: //booksllc.net/?id=24654294