Abstract
ABSTRACTIn interview, Claire Denis has described German actress and singer Ingrid Caven, whom she cast in a small part in her 2008 film 35 Rhums/35 Shots of Rum, as ‘a queen’. Caven's performance in the film is noticeably more flamboyant than those of the other actors, such as Denis ‘regulars’ Alex Descas and Grégoire Colin, and her dramatically expressive acting style renders her a highly visible interloper in the Denisian universe. Caven is best known for being part of German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's company of actresses (and his wife), and Denis has spoken of her admiration for Fassbinder. After exploring potential intertextual links between the work of the two directors, this article will propose that Caven's performance in 35 Rhums may be read as ‘Fassbinderian’, setting up a discourse between the two film-makers' oeuvres, which will then be interrogated using Paul Ricœur's theory of discourse as event, or as actualized performance of speech. Analysis of actors' performance styles and diegetic instances of performance within Denis's and Fassbinder's films will form the basis of this investigation into how filmic intertextuality may be read as a performance of discourse itself.
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