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 on Beau Travail. These details are drawn from the English Wikipedia article Claire Denis, which this entry cites as its source.
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Claire Denis (; French: [dəni]; born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and screenwriter.
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Other acclaimed works include Trouble Every Day (2001), 35 Shots of Rum (2008), White Material (2009), High Life (2018) and Both Sides of the Blade (2022), the last of which won her the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival.
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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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