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Film is a force for opinion for director Claire Denis (77). What are the perspectives like?

French writer Marie NDiaye likes a mystery. An admirer of detective novels, she has often felt “a pang of disappointment at the resolution, no ma

A broke young American woman in Nicaragua gets together with a suave Englishman in the veteran French director’s unsettling mood piece

These blood-sucking creatures serve as one of horror’s most creatively flexible monsters. Vampire movies are terrifying and romantic.

Adapted from a novel about the Nicaraguan crisis of the 1980s, Claire Denis’s latest film taps into a deep well of human sensuality and doom.

Love bites: Claire Denis’s first “straightforward thriller,” Stars at Noon, is a too-oblique portrait of the exploits of Western colonialists abroad

Love in a hopeless place

As her love triangle drama Both Sides of the Blade arrives in UK cinemas, we trace a beginner’s path through the sensual, rapturous films of Claire Denis.

Flying high: the last few days of Cannes contained many of this year’s high points, including Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up, Albert Serra’s Pacifiction, and David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future

Early in “Stars at Noon,” Yank journalist Trish gazes wistfully at a yellowed...