Review of Trouble Every Day (2001) by Matthew F. J — 03 May 2017

Claire Denis, a notorious French film auteur delivers with Trouble Every Day an incredible atmospheric, hypnotic and riveting tale of love and passion pushed to an extreme. Incredibly intense in its carnality and depiction of a condition that turns the infected ones into helpless cannibals who seems to enjoy sexuality and blood in a climatic fusion of gore. It's a slow paced movie and the story isn't strait forward, the plot unfolds as a series of encounters, mysterious characters, confusions of feeling, all set in a beautifully shot Paris.

The cast is intense and does push our own boundaries, which would explain the amount of negative criticism I have come across during my research about the film and it' many symbolic images.

Trouble Every Day isn't a classic 'horror' film in its form or narration, it's opaque, oppressive at times, graphic but somehow incredibly beautiful and disturbing all at once. This is definitely a film-experience, an arthouse bloodbath orchestrated by a director who smartly leaves a lot to the imagination of the viewers. It's a challenging film to watch but it's dark beauty hypnotized me from start to finish. What a film!