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AbstractClaire Denis is one of the few major French contemporary filmmakers whose films to date represent an attempt to forefront the effects of colonialism and post-colonialism on the psyche of both the colonised and coloniser. Her films reflect the complexities of addressing these effects not least because there is no essential colonial or post-colonial body. Rather, in her work, she reveals the multiplicities of the colonial and post-colonial body. More precisely, it is through the colonial/postcolonial body that she explores the transcultural affair that colonialism was and still is. This article will first examine this notion of multiplicity and transculturalism. It will then proceed to analyse Denis' exploration, in its many different forms, of the ravages on the «post-colonial-body-as-the-after-effects-of-colonialism». In this context the article will show how a major after effect—the erasure of memory—seems almost insurmountable and how the post-colonial body, therefore, seems ineluctably trapped ...
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