When you go to see a Claire Denis film, you don't go expecting to be spoon-fed a lot of information, and The Intruder is no exception. This hauntingly visual, dream-like film blends together a narrative storyline with dream sequences, abstractions, and maybe-prophetic moments. Denis, who said in an interview with Senses of Cinema that she "doesn't make highly intellectual films" and that The Intruder is like "a boat lost in the ocean drifting," makes you work to piece together a narrative out of seemingly obscure and unrelated bits and pieces. While you're never quite sure if you've got it all figured out, you leave feeling it was a swell ride anyhow. Seldom have I seen a film that inspired so much intense discussion in the bathroom and lobby after the screening; people were clustered in groups, going over snippets of film like clues to a murder mystery dinner party, long after the film ended.
The distribution company behind some of the most interesting indie and foreign releases in recent memory, from the
theatrical rollouts of The Brown Bunny and The Beat That My Heart Skipped, to Funny Ha Ha's
DVD release, is turning its theatrical division over to Harvey Weinstein. It's not a deal that could not be foreseen:
Weinstein's Company acquired a 70% stake in Wellspring's parent company, Genius LLC, in December, which gave them
control of a stunning library, including films by Peter Greenaway, Michaelangelo Antonioni, and Francois Truffaut. The
CEO of Genius is calling the Weinstein absorption a "realignment"; whatever it is, Wellspring will cease its
theatrical distribution business after minding the rollout of controversial Oscar 
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