Trouble Every Day (2001)

Two American newlyweds in Paris experience a love so strong, it almost devours them.

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:

f rated | paris france | vampire | bloodbath | drawing on a wall in blood | 

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Taglines:

I love you so much, I could eat you.

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Genres:

Drama | Horror | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Country:

France Germany Japan

Language:

French English

Release Date:

11 July 2001 (France)

Also Known As:

Sangre caníbal

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$6,558, 2 December 2001, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$9,189, 7 February 2014

Company Credits

Production Co:

Arte France Cinéma, Arte, Canal+

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

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

A dangerous and electric eroticism

The provocative cover image of a blood-spattered Beatrice Dalle only hints at the ferocity within Claire (Chocolat, Beau Travail) Denis' sad, haunting study of sex and cannibalism that caused record walkouts and faintings at its Cannes screening.

The voracious, predatory Core (Betty Blue's Dalle) is boarded up in a secluded Paris house by her husband, the errant scientist Leo (Alex Descas). She periodically escapes, seduces passing motorists and in sickening detail, methodically consumes her prey. Her fate is connected to a visiting American doctor Shane Brown (a seedy, unshaven, troubled-looking Vincent Gallo) on his honeymoon in Paris, apparently a test subject for Leo's experiments in unleashing the libido, and who is already having violent masturbatory fantasies of his gorgeous new bride (Tricia Vessey) covered in blood. "I will never hurt you," he whispers to his concerned wife, already showing a tell-tale bite mark on her shoulder.

Trouble Every Day is simply and beautifully shot, and while not as blatantly pornographic as Romance or Anatomy Of Hell, it has a dangerous and electric eroticism that's hard to shake. Wide-eyed Dalle says little yet conveys an air of both tragedy and primal appetite and doesn't overplay her animalism, while Gallo (Buffalo 66) is at his greasy, neurotic best. Its slow pace and spare action deliberately unfold the story in a distinctly European fashion; at the one hour mark the film switches from carnal to charnal, spiraling toward a grotesque and shattering crescendo worthy of the great excesses of the 70s art film. Stunning.