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Aug 17, 2020 · 183K 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 ...more. The...
Sep 15, 2020 · He is the author of The New Cinephilia and the editor of Film Quarterly ’s online column Quorum. 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.
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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Beau Travail. Edit. Summaries. An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti. 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 ...
Nov 4, 2010 · Control: An In-Depth Look at Claire Denis' Beau Travail. Claire Denis’ Beau Travail sets Herman Melville’s Billy Budd in the otherworldly terrain of North Africa, pitting nature against gaudy modernity and the colonizer against the colonized. The friction is dually recorded by the character of Galoup (Denis Lavant), a somewhat devious ...
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.
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.
