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Beau Travail (pronounced [bo tʁa.vaj], French for "good work") is a 1999 French film directed by Claire Denis that is loosely based on Herman Melville's 1888 novella Billy Budd. The story is set in Djibouti, where the protagonists are soldiers in the French Foreign Legion.
May 3, 2000 · Beau Travail: Directed by Claire Denis. With Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet. An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti.
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- Drama, War
- Claire Denis
- 2000-05-03
Watchlist. Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, but the arrival of a ...
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- La Sept-Arte
- Claire Denis
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Beau travail: A Cinema of Sensation Grafted together from a wide array of sources, Claire Denis’s most acclaimed film combines cerebral rigor, sensorial intensity, and a powerful meditation on masculinity and foreignness.
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Sep 15, 2020 · Beau travail—the title can mean both “good work” and “beautiful work”—took her back to Africa to shoot a feature there for the first time since her debut. The fifth of the thirteen full-length fiction films Denis has made so far—spanning an assortment of genres, settings, and tones—it is the work that continues to be her most ...
Oct 20, 2020 · Claire Denis’s film “Beau Travail,” a luminous tale of desire and despair in the French Foreign Legion, had an uncanny effect on me when I first watched it some years after its release, in 1999.
