The first excursion into genre cinema by the celebrated French auteur Claire Denis, who had made her name with her previous feature Beau Travail, Trouble Every Day is an erotically charged exploration of our darkest human desires and a key film in the development of what later came to be known as the New French Extremity movement.

Dr Shane Brown (Vincent Gallo, Buffalo '66) and his new wife June (Tricia Vessey, On the Edge) are honeymooning in Paris, though Shane has other plans for their trip. He is hoping to track down his former medical colleague Léo Semenau (Alex Descas, Bastards) and discuss a past study into the human libido. But Léo doesn’t want to be found – he is living in obscurity to hide his own wife, Coré (Béatrice Dalle, Inside), who has developed an insatiable, cannibalistic lust as a result of Léo’s outlandish experiments. A lust that Shane is beginning to feel, too…

A lyrical rumination on the pleasures of the flesh, Trouble Every Day is a remarkable work of extreme cinema that challenged critics and audiences upon its release before it came to be lauded as a modern classic.

The Masters of Cinema series and the Showroom Cinema are proud to present a special preview of a brand new 4K restoration of Trouble Every Day. The screening on Saturday 26 July will include a contextual introduction by Craig Ian Mann, producer for Eureka and its Masters of Cinema series.

Director Claire Denis
Year 2001
Duration 2h 1m
Language French with English subtitles
Cast Vincent Gallo, Tricia Vessey, Alex Descas