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Claire Denis

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Claire Denis, born in Paris on 21 April 1946, is a French film director and screenwriter. Her feature film Beau Travail of 1999 has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s and of all time, and her work has dealt with themes of colonial and post-colonial West Africa as well as issues in contemporary French society. Within this atlas Claire Denis is credited as the director of B. These details are drawn from the English Wikipedia article Claire Denis, which this entry cites as its source.

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1946 1
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Claire Denis (; French: [dəni]; born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and screenwriter.
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Beau Travail - Wikipedia
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Beau Travail (pronounced [bo tʁa.vaj], French for "good job" or "nice work") is a 1999 French arthouse psychological drama film directed by Claire Denis, who co-wrote the screenplay alongside Jean-Pol Fargeau as an adaptation of the novella Billy Budd by Herman Melville.
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