TROUBLE EVERY DAY is Denis’s most controversial, divisive film, an audacious change-of-pace that transposes some of her recurring themes and performers into the framework of an erotic splatter film. The film parallels two characters—--an American (Vincent Gallo) on honeymoon in Paris, and a Frenchwoman (Béatrice Dalle) imprisoned by her scientist husband (Alex Descas). Both are struggling with a drug-induced affliction that yokes sexual hunger with a literal hunger for flesh, so that consummation inevitably leads to cannibalism—--seen in two harrowing scenes whose over-the-top blood-letting led one critic to compare them to action-painting. (MR) Screened in 2013 as part of Foreign Bodies: The Films of Claire Denis.