If we’re to subscribe to the common belief that there’s more bad than good out there in the world, as far as cinema is concerned, then one could make the argument that many middle-of-the-road motion pictures operate as visually-driven information-delivery systems: a means by which filmmakers can bring exposition, jokes, thrills, and ultimately, a resolution to an audience. Claire Denis is not a filmmaker who subscribes to this reductive artistic philosophy. 

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The word “poet” gets thrown around to describe filmmakers willy-nilly these days, but few have earned the term by virtue of their rhapsodically unconventional visual style as much as Denis has over the course of her remarkable career.

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