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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
A French Foreign Legion sergeant (Denis Lavant) falls in love with a young recruit (Grégoire Colin) in Djibouti. This sensual and violent film by Claire Denis explores themes of masculinity, colonialism, and desire, with a stunning operatic soundtrack by Benjamin Britten.
- Galoup
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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- La Sept-Arte
- Claire Denis
- Drama
Sep 15, 2020 · A film essay on Beau travail, a 1999 masterpiece by French director Claire Denis, set in Djibouti and inspired by Melville, Britten and Godard. Explore the themes of foreignness, nonbelonging, masculinity and sensuality in this cinematic graft of diverse sources.
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1.6K. 187K views 3 years ago. 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/stream...
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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.
