“I Always Panic… Panic is My Normal State”: Claire Denis in Conversation with Ira Sachs

On the occasion of Claire Denis’s birthday today, we are reprinting this Fall, 1997 interview from our print edition — writer/director Ira Sachs, whose first feature, The Delta, was in release, speaking with Denis around the U.S.

opening of her Nenette et Boni.

For the past ten years, the French director Claire Denis has been making a vital group of films which, with their mixture of intimate drama, sociological observation, and political acuity, have established her as an important influence on other independent-minded filmmakers around the world.

After working as a crew member on Jim Jarmusch’s Down by Law,Denis made […]

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