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Photo of Stuart Staples

Stuart Staples

“Thinking back to our first two albums, singing was the last thing on my mind. It was such an intense time. The singing was a job to do, alongside being involved in the arrangements, bringing people together to make the songs, the sonics in the studio...the singing was, oh, I'd better sing it now. ”

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    WHITE MATERIAL

    CLAIRE DENIS France, 2009

    The collaboration between Isabelle Huppert and Claire Denis the world had been dreaming of, arrived with this powerful story about the death throes of white colonialism. Denis—who grew up in French Africa—returns to her roots with this sublime, poetic yet nightmarish exploration of racial conflict.

    35 SHOTS OF RUM

    CLAIRE DENIS France, 2008

    Beloved arthouse director Claire Denis brings her sensual, tender touch to this very contemporary version of Ozu’s classic masterpiece on familial bonds and the transience of life, Late Spring. Unforgettably shot by the great Agnès Godard and beautifully scored by the Tindersticks.

    LET THE SUNSHINE IN

    CLAIRE DENIS France, 2017

    A Claire Denis romcom? We’re sold! Subverting fairytale tropes with fine irony, this wonderfully unpredictable take on middle-age female desire and the volatility of emotions stars an exquisitely mercurial Juliette Binoche—searching for love, encountering mostly disappointment. Oh, and that ending!

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