Trouble Every Day (2001)

Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane''s mysterious and frequent visits to a medical... See full summary »

Director:

Claire Denis

Writers:

Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau

Stars:

Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Béatrice Dalle

3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Vincent Gallo	...	Shane Brown
Tricia Vessey	...	June Brown
Béatrice Dalle	...	Coré
Alex Descas	...	Léo
Florence Loiret Caille	...	Christelle (as Florence Loiret-Caille)
Nicolas Duvauchelle	...	Erwan
Raphaël Neal	...	Ludo
José Garcia	...	Choart
Hélène Lapiower	...	Malécot
Marilu Marini	...	Friessen
Aurore Clément	...	Jeanne
Bakary Sangaré	...	Le Gardien de nuit
Lionel Goldstein	...	Le Réceptioniste
Céline Samie	...	La Femme de la brasserie
Arnaud Churin	...	Le Routier

Storyline

Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane''s mysterious and frequent visits to a medical clinic where cutting edge studies of the human libido are undertaken. When Shane seeks out a self-exiled expert in the field, he happens upon the doctor''s wife, another victim of the same malady. She has become so dangerous and emotionally paralyzed by the condition that her husband imprisons her by day in their home. It is Shane's chance encounter with this woman that triggers an event so cataclysmic and shocking it might just lead him to rediscover the tranquility he seeks to restore for himself and his new bride.

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Plot Keywords:

doctor | medical clinic | shovel | sleeplessness | telephone call | 

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Taglines:

The ability to love. The inability to love... The hunger to love.

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Genres:

Horror | Thriller | Drama

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

France Germany Japan

Language:

French English

Release Date:

11 July 2001 (France)

Also Known As:

Amor caníbal

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$6,558 (USA) (30 November 2001)

Gross:

$85,994 (USA) (28 June 2002)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Arte, Canal+, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min 102 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The title of this film comes from a Frank Zappa song of the same name from the album "Freak Out!"

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Goofs

At time-stamp 56:49, a face (presumably the crew since no one is in the house) can be seen reflected in the glass door/window on the right of the screen.

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Connections

Featured in Snuff: A Documentary About Killing on Camera (2008)

User Reviews

unfairly maligned

"Trouble Every Day" is, for me, one of the most unfairly maligned films of recent times. Surely it is the admittedly confronting content that has people dismissing this near-brilliant meditation on carnal desire, blood lust and homicidal tendencies, and not the filmmaking. There is something gratuitous about the scenes of explicit violence in "Trouble Every Day" but I see no reason why this is grounds to reject the film outright. I think everything else works pretty well from the elliptical narrative that never lets on more than it needs, the stripped and reserved performances, the suggestive camera work and the beautiful, atmospheric photography. The sense of menace created by the guttural aural track and the bloody violence suggest an unusual link between art-film and horror that is reminiscent of Cronenberg and Ferrara. One of the more compelling films I've seen in recent times.