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2001 · horror · drama

Trouble Every Day

Directed by Claire Denis1h 41m2001
ElsewhereIMDb5.910kRT58%Metacritic40TMDB5.8236
  • heavy
  • slow-burn
  • extreme
  • surreal
  • bleak
  • cold
Movie DNA

Heavy, slow-burn, extreme horror / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Newlyweds Shane and June arrive in Paris for their honeymoon. In the process of trying to find a cure for his strange, bloodthirsty disease, Shane stumbles upon the story of a doctor and his flesh eating wife.

Our read · Trouble Every Day (2001) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, surreal horror · drama entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want transgressive Claire Denis horror where desire turns predatory and clinical.

ends unsettlingit will wreck youa slow buildgrips by minute 35attention 5/5earns its lengthsubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sexnuditysexual violencegraphic violencegore

Skip it tonightSkip if sexual violence, cannibalistic horror, or extreme gore will haunt you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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