Trouble Every Day

The vampire genre gets reinvented every few years. Trouble Every Day is Claire Denis doing it definitively in 2001, a few years before Tomas Alfredson gave it the IKEA flatpack refit with Let the Right One In and Ana Lily Amanpour boldly put an Iranian spin on the whole thing with A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night in 2014. In a sense Denis’s film is the motherlode, because it shows how this most verbose and ornate of genres can be approached from an entirely new angle. Watch Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin (2013) and tell me he hadn’t watched Trouble Every Day. He’s even repurposed plot elements. Quiet, slow, moody and lacking … Read more