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Her favorite was Trouble Every Day, the only horror film Claire Denis ever made, in which an American man goes to Paris with his wife for their honeymoon. But the trip has a darker purpose.

Hobbs puts three issues on the agenda: photography, the western genre, and the absurd. Only her flushed face reveals evidence of nerves. She discusses the camera as a “violent tool” in the context of “visual pleasure and narrative cinema.” Then she delivers the heartfelt confession, “Thomas Mann said that all women are misogynists. I can identify t