Celebrated French filmmaker Claire Denis (“High Life,” “Let the Sunshine In”) is, like everyone, stuck at home at the moment dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 74-year-old filmmaker is also continuing work on her next few films, telling Vulture today that she’s spending her mornings working on a script for a new one but isn’t going into any details.
Said script is said to be different from her A24 project she was prepping to shoot at the end of the Fall somewhere in Central America – that one starring Robert Pattinson and Margaret Qualley.
The essay she has written for the outlet also reveals that she stared out the quarantine rewatching classic films at night including Michael Mann’s “Thief,” a handful of Yasujirp Ozu films, Michael Powell’s “The Edge of the World,” Gordon Parks’ “Shaft,” two films by Marguerite Duras, and several works of both Oshima Nagisa Shohei Imamura.
The 74-year-old filmmaker was in Los Angeles prepping to shoot a film with artist The Weeknd before the pandemic began.
