Vincent
Gallo and his wife (Tricia Vessey) are on their honeymoon in Paris, but he
keeps putting her off to bug a bunch of doctors about a latest miracle drug. Meanwhile, Core (Beatrice Dalle) goes around the
city devouring men while her husband (Alex Descas) cleans up her messes. We eventually learn they are both afflicted
with a strange disease that turns them into cannibals whenever they are
sexually aroused.
Claire (High Life) Denis’ Trouble Every Day is a deliberately paced variation on the vampire legend. It explores the loneliness and isolation that comes with savage bloodlust, and does so in a moody, artsy-fartsy way. It stops just short of being absorbing, but it does give you enough tantalizing glimpses of the female form and/or vomitous bloodletting to keep you watching.
Gallo
is one of my favorite actors, and he is perfect for the lead. (He also has one of the best websites on the
planet.) At all times, he looks sheepish
and sad, with his melancholy suggesting something sinister lurks just below the
surface. Dalle is quite good too, and
her performance reminded me a bit of Anne Parillaud in Innocent Blood.
For
a while, it works. However, it ultimately
falls apart due to the lethargic pacing. I’ll admit, I started to zone out during some
of the long takes where nothing happens thanks to the droning soundtrack.
The
more interesting passages deal with the practicality of living with the
disease. It’s decidedly less so when the
concentration is on Gallo’s search for a cure as many of the lab-based scenes
are the weakest in the film. Still,
stick with it and you’ll be rewarded by a scene where Gallo literally eats a
woman out. Even then, it’s not quite
enough to make up for the movie’s more lackluster passages.
Still,
if you ever wanted to see Vincent Gallo shoot his load, this is the movie for
you.
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