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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.
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.
Oct 20, 2020 · Melville’s John Claggart, the master-at-arms whose obsession with the handsome young sailor Billy turns destructive, is the archetypal self-hating gay villain. In “Beau Travail,” Claggart ...
Beau Travail finds director Claire Denis drawing on classic literature to construct a modern tragedy fueled by timeless desires. Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, recalls his once glorious life...
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The new restoration of Claire Denis's Beau Travail opens on September 4 in the Film at Lincoln Center Virtual Cinema! Watch: https://www.filmlinc.org/streamC...
Sep 15, 2020 · Quite simply, Beau travail features one of the most astonishing endings in cinema. Galoup, at home in Marseille, fastidiously makes his bed, lies down in it, and places a gun on his bare stomach.
Jun 7, 2012 · Blood and sand: what makes Beau Travail great. In this essay making the case for contenders in S&S’s poll to find the Greatest Film of All Time, we revisit Beau Travail, Claire Denis’s rapturous 1998 exploration of male identity in crisis. Updated: 13 November 2019.
Beau travail. Directed by Claire Denis • 1999 • France. Starring Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin. With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd, Sailor,” Claire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of our time.
This film focuses on ex-Foreign Legion officer Galoup as he recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict, and regimented, but the arrival of promising young recruit Sentain plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.
