Claire Denis' moody romantic thriller, "Stars at Noon," which won the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival this year, features copious sex and shadowy politics. The film, adapted from the late Denis Johnson's 2000 novel, has Trish (Margaret Qualley), an American, posing as a journalist in present-day Nicaragua. She sidles up to the Intercontinental hotel bar to flirt with Daniel (Joe Alwyn), a British businessman working with an oil company. He takes her back to his hotel room where she has sex with him for $50 American.
"Abuse of power is what I am most of afraid of since I was a child. Being afraid all the time is my life."
