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French director Claire Denis has made a number of well-received films during the past two decades, including the critical favorite Beau Travail0 (1999), but she remains best known for her first feature, Chocolat0 (1988), the semiautobiographical story of a girl growing up in Africa. Rather than proceeding chronologically, like Brunette and Anderson, through her subject's work, feminist scholar Mayne discusses Denis' films thematically, examining the filmmaker's treatment of the legacies of colonialism in Chocolat 0 and No Fear, No 0 Die; of brother-sister relationships in U.S. Go Home 0 and Nenette and Boni0 ; and the concept of strangerhood in I Can't Sleep0 and Beau Travail0 . 0 A 2003 interview with Denis is included. The creator of a body of uncompromising and personal work, Denis is one of France's most important post-New Wave directors, one who, like Wong and Yang, has attracted the devotion of hard-core cineastes, a tiny, dedicated, generally highly literate audience that will embrace Mayne's study as well as its series mates. --Gordon Flagg Copyright 2005 Booklist
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