Nénette et Boni
Claire Denis / FR, 1996 / 102 min.
Estranged teenage brother and sister Boni and Nénette become closer to one another when Nénette, pregnant, runs away from boarding school and takes refuge in her older brother’s filthy apartment. Nénette et Boni won the Golden Leopard at the 1996 Locarno film festival.
Boni, a young pizza chef, lives alone in his deceased mother’s house and spends his days having erotic fantasies about an attractive baker’s wife (Valérie Bruni-Tedeschi). When his fifteen-year-old little sister Nénette – pregnant and pursued by their father – moves in with him, the bond between brother and sister is put to the test. The soundtrack is by British cult band and regular Claire Denis collaborators Tindersticks.
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Director
Claire Denis
Production year
1996
Country
FR
Original title
Nénette et Boni
Length
102 min.
Language
French
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
Claire Denis
Eye screens an extensive retrospective of the work of one of France’s most important filmmakers: Claire Denis. In her films, Claire Denis probes the consequences of colonialism and the feeling of being an outsider, devoting particular attention to family tensions, sensuality, desire and the body. The programme features new restorations of her films, with Chocolat (4K) and Beau travail (4K) appearing on the big screen in the Netherlands for the first time.
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