The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, January 13-19
Trouble Every Day (2001)
Directed by Claire Denis
Denis boils the psyche down to an enigmatic stew via slow-spilling quiet orchestras of seductive moving images, often with minimal dialogue. We are left to patiently ingest a ripe reduction of what you will surely recognize as human: sexual frustration, guilt, loneliness, lust, primal yearning. Trouble Every Day is no exception to her oeuvre—well, except for the hunger, a longing that goes so far as to draw blood. And lots of it. Shane (Vincent Gallo), a distracted newlywed, and Coré (Béatrice Dalle), quarantined wife of a mysterious scientist, are both wildly ravenous, but even that is more than you need to know. This is not a psychological thriller, nor a horror film. This is radical entrancing poetic intoxication. Samuel T. Adams (January 13, 22, 30, 7:30pm at the Spectacle)