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Two strangers share a strange and terrible bond in this stylish horror tale that juggles sex and graphic bloodshed. Shane Brown (Vincent Gallo) is a strange man with a forbidding nature who has just m... read more read more...arried lovely but nervous June (Tricia Vessey), and they've decided to go to Paris for their honeymoon. In the City of Lights, a beautiful but dangerous woman named Core (Beatrice Dalle) has been leaving a trail of dead bodies in her wake when she's captured by Leo Semeneau (Alex Descas), a mysterious scientist who spirits her away to his estate. As Core is placed under guard, Semeneau leaves to return to the city for an unnamed assignment; we soon learn that one of Shane's reasons for coming to Paris was to find him and retrieve some important information. In time, we also discover that Shane and Core have something rather unusual in common -- both are murderous cannibals who regularly feast on the flesh of their victims, and Semeneau's information may hold the key to the secret behind their deadly appetite. Trouble Every Day generated a certain amount of controversy in its screenings at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where a number of patrons walked out in disgust at the film's intense blend of sensuality and cannibalism. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 42 min.

Directed by: Claire Denis

Release Date: July 11, 2001

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DVD Release Date: April 26, 2005

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  • January 7, 2010
    Minimal dialogue, a film that tells its story with images instead. At first the pacing and cinematography were hypnotizing, but an hour in, the slowness was effecting my viewing experience. It's clearly a very visually calculated movie, and obviously wants to be considered art ho... read moreuse.

    Due to the minimal dialogue and articulate angles, this movie causes some plot ambiguity that I hoped would not be frustrating, that it would all sort of come together in the end and that acute observation could carry the bulk of the film. It does to an extent, but still too many relationships are left unexplained and there are some disposable characters that simply muddle the story. The main thing I longed for was some more revelation about the dynamic between Dr. Leo and Dr. Brown. The Coré character is chilling, and she certainly makes this fit in a "horror" mode, though it is primarily an art house mystery that emphasizes sex and sensuality with its many flesh-on-flesh closeups.

    "Most Fucked Up" highlight: Coré at work on the "boy next door", Gallo's character (Dr.Brown) literally eats pussy

    "New Wave French Horror": this is more an extreme cinema/art house film than horror, but the gory scenes and cannibalistic subject qualify it
  • September 29, 2009
    Not Vincent Gallo at his best but Claire Denis?s direction is. It?s a bit slow (or atmospheric) to get started and It?s a bit disturbing but stick with it, you?ll be glad you did!
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    March 10, 2012
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    Haunting, Sexy and Terrifying with great reserved art direction and a shivering soundtrack by Tindersticks.
  • January 13, 2010
    Claire Denis exercises brilliant directorial control in this brooding, deeply shocking film. The pacing of the story disarms the audience, so that when it reaches its gruesome climax we feel it on a physical level. Beatrice Dalle is terrifying in her limited amount of screen time... read more, and Vincent Gallo is extremely convincing and understated. A beautifully made film that achieves a strong sense of atmosphere and tension. The score by Tindersticks is outstanding too. One of my favorite films from 2001.
  • October 18, 2010
    The biting fetish (Ever had the urge to bite your lover?) seen as a disease that to the viewer is cannibalism. Like a French Cronenberg movie but with a really slow pace and a seemingly low budget. For most of the duration the story's plot appeared confusing, but once the stories... read more converged it was understandable. The concept wasn't given its due but the rare moments of sexual gore are explicit, kinky and grosstastic.
  • June 23, 2009
    An atmospheric film, with Beatrice Dalle giving a great performance as a woman who's libido drives her to cannibalistic excess, alongside Vincent Gallo looking as filthy and unkempt as ever.

    The slow burn narrative is methodical and precise, but I never got all that swept up in ... read morethe story, in spite of enjoying the subject matter.

    Possibly a rental?
  • July 25, 2007
    An amazing story that's told in an artistic, spellbinding fashion. Slow, observing, very precise in its execution. Gallo is perfectly cast, using his subtle intensity to its finest as he protrays a man struggling with a hunger inside himself that he is afraid he cannot control. A... read more mysterious, ambigious masterpiece. :D

Critic Reviews


Eric Harrison
May 3, 2002
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle

Denis is an extraordinarily reticent storyteller. Full Review

Chris Fujiwara
April 26, 2002
Chris Fujiwara, Boston Globe

Trouble Every Day is a success in some sense, but it's hard to like a film so cold and dead. Full Review

Mick LaSalle
April 5, 2002
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

Here the love scenes all end in someone screaming. Maybe there's a metaphor here, but figuring it out wouldn't make Trouble Every Day any better. Full Review

Andrew O'Hehir
March 9, 2002
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com

Watching Trouble Every Day, at least if you don't know what's coming, is like biting into what looks like a juicy, delicious plum on a hot summer day and coming away with your mouth full of rotten pul... Full Review

Lisa Schwarzbaum
March 7, 2002
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

A hysterical yet humorless disquisition on the thin line between sucking face and literally sucking face. Full Review

John Anderson
March 1, 2002
John Anderson, Newsday

... a film that is profoundly disturbing, yet hauntingly unforgettable. Full Review

V.A. Musetto
March 1, 2002
V.A. Musetto, New York Post

Nothing Denis has made before, like Beau Travil and Nenette et Boni, could prepare us for this gory, perverted, sex-soaked riff on the cannibal genre.

Stephen Holden
February 28, 2002
Stephen Holden, New York Times

The story of Trouble Every Day ... is so sketchy it amounts to little more than preliminary notes for a science-fiction horror film, and the movie's fragmentary narrative style makes piecing the story... Full Review

J. Hoberman
February 26, 2002
J. Hoberman, Village Voice

Purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore, if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons. Full Review

Kevin Thomas
November 30, 2001
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

What's needed so badly but what is virtually absent here is either a saving dark humor or the feel of poetic tragedy. Full Review

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