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Oct 1, 2020 · But never has rhythmic movement been more central to Denis’s filmmaking than in her masterpiece Beau travail (1999), a bold reimagining of Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor that follows a French Foreign Legion sergeant (Denis Lavant) and his obsession with a young recruit (Colin) against the backdrop of a Djibouti desert landscape. The ...
Oct 16, 2012 · Here Mr. Lavant plays male and female, old and young, the living, the dying and the dead. Image. Denis Lavant in "Holy Motors," directed by Leos Carax.
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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. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of ...
Jul 13, 2018 · The Night Eats the World: Directed by Dominique Rocher. With Anders Danielsen Lie, Golshifteh Farahani, Denis Lavant, Sigrid Bouaziz. The morning after a party, a young man wakes up to find Paris invaded by zombies.
Aug 26, 2022 · 1986’s Mauvais Sang (Bad Blood), playfully toying with film-noir tropes, follows a troubled young man Alex (Denis Lavant) who is tasked to steal a virus culture that works against a mysterious ...
Sep 16, 2020 · Denis has journeyed so far from her child’s-eye African adventure, “Chocolat” (1988). But from her 1994 “I Can’t Sleep,” when Denis first made Paris truly her own, she anatomized a neighborhood through collisions, disjuncture, overlaps. The narrative was elusive, a solution just beyond grasp, elusive, forever mystifying.
Sep 15, 2020 · A Cinema of Sensation. By Girish Shambu. Essays —. Sep 15, 2020. W hen Claire Denis’s Beau travail (1999) first appeared on American screens, the critic Stephen Holden used a striking phrase to capture its embracing of bold opposites: “voluptuous austerity.”. His characterization, widely quoted since, illuminates the film on many levels ...
