
Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane's mysterious and frequent visits to a medical clinic where cutting edge studies of the human libido are undertaken. When Shane seeks out a self-exiled expert in the field, he happens upon the doctor's wife, another victim of the same malady. She has become so dangerous and emotionally paralyzed by the condition that her husband impriso... (Full plot summary below)
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Shane and June Brown are an American couple honeymooning in Paris in an effort to nurture their new life together, a life complicated by Shane's mysterious and frequent visits to a medical clinic where cutting edge studies of the human libido are undertaken. When Shane seeks out a self-exiled expert in the field, he happens upon the doctor's wife, another victim of the same malady. She has become so dangerous and emotionally paralyzed by the condition that her husband imprisons her by day in their home. It is Shane's chance encounter with this woman that triggers an event so cataclysmic and shocking it might just lead him to rediscover the tranquility he seeks to restore for himself and his new bride.
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| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanUltimately, the message of Trouble Every Day seems to be that all sexual desire disrupts life's stasis. |
| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsDonald J. LevitMuch in a Denis work depends on players' silences instead of monologues or dialogues. |
| Time OutKeith UhlichGallo and Dalle are sublimely tragic figures; the scene in which Shane stalks around Notre Dame like Frankenstein unleashed is a pitch-perfect encapsulation of the way the film plays with and deepens movie-monster archetypes. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenThere's possibly no other living director as in sync with the politics of touch as Claire Denis. |
| Woman in RevoltLindsay Pugh"Trouble Every Day" is a horror film that works outside the typical genre conventions while constantly referencing films from the canon. |
| The RingerSean FennesseySpare and unwilling to overstate its point. Its style is European in all the ways that are often lazily deemed pretentious. But rarely are those pretenses so perfectly horrific. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezRarely has skin looked as beautiful, desirable, even delectable, as it does in Trouble Every Day. |
| Boston PhoenixPeter KeoughA haunting and exasperating tone poem of revulsion and regret, a come-on and a turn-off that is troubling in every way. |
| Apollo GuideJon LapThe film is an odd little piece, one in which its malaise disposition persists to engender the cinematic thrill that subcultural viewers hope for. |
| London Evening StandardAlexander WalkerShock values may tempt an art-house talent into producing what she (Claire Denis) hopes will be box-office. What comes out, though, is simply badly handled pretentiousness. |