
BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE, Moody, Sizzling Noir From Claire Denis
Shot during the pandemic, with her frequent collaborators, Claire Denis’s moody chamber piece, Both Sides of the Blade, might be seen too wordy and conventional for the die-hard Denis acolytes who prefer her blissful visual filmmaking with colors and textures. But rest easy, because the film is nothing but. It contains more than enough visual/aural …