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TROUBLE EVERY DAY Send This Review to a Friend
Some actors are given to chewing the scenery. In "Trouble Every Day" they chew each other. This isn't the sort of campy vampire neck biting to enhance the blood supply of the undead or to swell the vampire ranks.The characters in this bloody film by French director Claire Denis chomp away on each other's flesh for pleasure, whether on the face or more erotic areas. It is so disgusting to watch that it is hard to imagine anyone but Hannibal Lechter finding enjoyment.
So what are director Denis and co-writer Jean-Pol Fargeau up to? After all, Denis is a serious filmmaker, as shown by her excellent and riveting "Beau Travail." Here she is apparently reveling in cannibalism as a metaphor for sexual relationships. Ho Hum. Two of her characters have the same acquired brain disease. But whatever Denis has on her brain, "Trouble Every Day" requires the strongest of stomachs.
Beatrice Dalle as Core, a woman from whom any male attracted to her is in imminent danger, is locked away in a house in Paris, obviously for good reason. Dalle is an attractive actress, but that's not enough to make this off-putting story more palatable. Vincent Gallo is a similarly afflicted male as Shane, honeymooning is Paris with his bride June (Tricia Vessey), and he doesn't even have the advantage of being attractive. Since both Core and Shane became cannibalistic as a result of medical experiments, presumably the film also fits into the science-can-be-dangerous genre.
Whatever the motivating ideas, "Trouble Every Day" is simply oppressively gruesome, all the more so because Denis's filmmaking is so visually effective. A Lot 47 Films release.
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