A spare docu about choreographer Mathilde Monnier, French helmer Claire Denis's latest, "Towards Mathilde," is as lean and clean as her last fictional feature, "The Intruder," was febrile and muddled.

"Records" by Mathilde Monnier, at the Théâtre de la Vignette in Montpellier (southern France) on October 5, 2021. MARC COUDRAIS It's nighttime and a fire burns. Skin shimmers in the dark. Two bodies ...

There were no assurances in the programme for Mathilde Monnier's Signe, Signes that the two live birds in the show were willing participants. On Tuesday night, the smaller one was certainly hopping ...