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Trouble Every Day
Lot 47 Films

Trouble Every Day reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 36 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.0 out of 10
based on 15 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle, Alex Descas, and Florence Loiret

Claire Denis, the award-winning director of "Beau Travail," unleashes her provocative vision of desire. (Lot 47 Films)


GENRE(S): Suspense/Thriller  
WRITTEN BY: Claire Denis
Jean-Pol Fargeau
 
DIRECTED BY: Claire Denis  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: March 9, 2004 
Theatrical: November 30, 2001 
RUNNING TIME: 100 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: France / Germany / Japan 
LANGUAGE(S): English / French 

Official Selection, 2001 Cannes Film Festival

What The Critics Said

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75
New York Post V.A. Musetto
If you have an appetite for audacious, one-of-a-kind filmmaking, this one's for you. Just don't say you weren't warned.
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70
Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
A haunting and terrifying film. It's also a film of wonderful spaces and silences.
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63
Boston Globe Chris Fujiwara
A success in some sense, but it's hard to like a film so cold and dead.
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50
Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Something haunting is going on here, but it's as difficult for the viewers as it is for the characters to sink their teeth into anything truly satisfying.
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50
TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
The extremely intimate violence is more explicit than is the mainstream norm, and Dalle's mouth is the stuff of nightmares.
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50
Film Threat Michael Dequina
As palpable as the atmosphere is, had the film boasted a clearer, more memorable story and performances that were a step above adequate, the creepiness wouldn't have simply lingered with the viewer, it would have gotten under their skin.
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50
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Denis's pungent images create a nightmarish mood but don't bring full artistic coherence to her odd mix of gothic horror and postmodern reverie.
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40
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Highly problematical. The trouble with "Trouble" is one of temperament. Denis' formality and seriousness make the horror genre a risky business for her, especially when sex is combined with outrageous gore.
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40
LA Weekly Ernest Hardy
A taut mess -- beautiful, gory, tedious and puzzling.
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33
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
A demented, orgiastically gory vampire/sex parable.
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30
The New York Times Stephen Holden
Ultimately seems naïve. In developing the comparison of sex and cannibalism, it never goes beyond the standard Draculian symbol of blood to include other bodily substances.
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25
New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Insipid, self-indulgent bit of art-house macabre.
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25
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Maybe there's a metaphor here, but figuring it out wouldn't make Trouble Every Day any better.
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20
Village Voice J. Hoberman
This modern-day vampire story is purposefully shocking in its eroticized gore, if unintentionally dull in its lack of poetic frissons.
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20
Variety Derek Elley
Over-long, under-written and needlessly obscure instead of genuinely atmospheric.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

James M gave it a10:
Perfection, in every single way, but I just can't explain why. It contains one scene of absolutely carnage, and another which left me very, very unsettled, both of which were very disturbing and gory, but somehow they contributed to the bigger picture, lifting a moody, spectacularly structured film into a higher realm. The result is a bloody, brilliant, bold and overwhelming experience. The critics know nothing - this is one of the greats.

Carol H. gave it a 4:
A slow-moving film which I found myself longing to end! Vincent Gallo needs to cheer up and Beatrice Dalle is just loopy (as usual). Beautifully shot though, when the gory bits do come they are very shocking. I felt rather queasy! Too many questions were left unanswered - that's French cinema for you!

Elliott M. gave it a 9:
Although it was undoubtedly the most disturbing film I have ever seen, it also featured such powerful acting, that I almost believed that what was actually happening on screen - was ACTUALLY happening. The director's neglect to restrain ANYTHING on screen makes the film so undoubtedly powerful that by the time the film is over, you can't get the images out of your head. And whether you like it or not (mostly not), you would have to say - that was exactly the point.

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