Trouble Every Day is a dreary, tightly paced and challenging film directed by French filmmaker Claire Denis. For the adventurous viewer, this film can be an extremely rewarding experience. This is one that will definitely have the audience torn with that love it or hate it mentality. Man, can't we all just get along?

Basically what we have here are two separate, yet intertwining stories. One story involves a young woman named Coré (Béatrice Dalle) who finds it necessary to share an intimate moment with a stranger, only to chomp down on their raw human flesh (yes cannibal style) afterwards. We are then introduced to a young couple on their honeymoon in France, Shane (Vincent Gallo) and June (Tricia Vessey). Completely in love, Shane is seeking out a chemist colleague (actually Coré's husband, apparently gone missing), searching for a cure for his failing libido, among other things. It's not long before Shane succumbs to his disturbing desires for that delicious taste of human flesh as well.

Sometimes erotic, sometimes downright disturbing, Trouble Every Day can be a very difficult film to watch. Similar in style to Cronenberg's Crash or Kubrik's Eyes Wide Shut, Trouble also closely resembles the films of another French filmmaker, Jean Rollin who is famous for his melancholy vampire/living dead films of the 70's (Living Dead Girl, Lips of Blood, Requiem for a Vampire). The similarities don't end there either, as the correlation between the characters (especially that of Coré) and that of vampires or the living dead are extremely evident (Coré is locked up in a dark room during the day and escapes at night to feed her savage lust). While treated more as a disorder or a bizarre fetish, one can't help but see the supernatural undertones within.

Trouble Every Day is definitely not a film for everyone. With extremely graphic scenes of violence (flesh literally being chewed off the victims) and bizarre sex acts (some of the shrill screams of pain/ecstasy? are very difficult to bear) Trouble is not for the casual viewer. Those in search of something unique and disturbing, would be wise to give Trouble Every Day a chance. Put me down for the side that loved it. This was one incredible piece of filmmaking, that i'm not likely to forget anytime soon.

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