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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.
Aug 17, 2020 · 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...
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 ...
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.
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 promising young ...
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