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Beau Travail

Drama

2000, Movie, 1h 33min

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 Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant (Denis Lavant) sows the seeds of his own ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit (Grégoire Colin) plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten. Denis and cinematographer Agnès Godard fold military and masculine codes of honor, colonialism’s legacy, destructive jealousy, and repressed desire into shimmering, hypnotic images that ultimately explode in one of the most startling and unforgettable endings in all of modern cinema.

Country: France

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Reviews

Critic Clark Collis

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This largely dialogue-free film follows a group of French legionnaires as they sweat and train and sweat.

Read full review at Empire

Critic Marjorie Baumgarten

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It is ruminative and mysterious, yet quite specific and immediately gratifying.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

Critic Wanda Bendjelloul

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Genom sitt unika och sensuella filmspråk visar Claire Denis sin mästerliga förmåga att överföra karaktärernas djupt dolda begär och känslor till betraktaren.

Read full review at Dagens Nyheter

Michael Thomsen

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En af de bedste film fra de sidste 25 år. Mest fortalt med billeder og musik, så hvis man forventer et letforståeligt plot bliver man måske skuffet. Men meget givende værk for alle os andre.

3 years ago

Critic David Weiss

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...kan lätt uppfattas som både riktningslös och frustrerande. Men om man hittar in på filmens våglängd och låter den spela efter sina egna regler, så växer dess storhet fram.

Read full review at Nöjesguiden

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In Djibouti's sweltering heat, a French Foreign Legion officer named Galoup recalls his glorious past leading troops and training young recruits. His loyalty to his commandant Bruno Forestier is unwavering, but the arrival of a promising young soldier named Gilles Sentain plants a seed of jealousy in Galoup's mind. As he becomes increasingly consumed by his envy, Galoup sets out to destroy Sentain by luring him into the desert and abandoning him. Sentain survives but never returns to the base, and Galoup is sent back to France for a court martial, ending his career in disgrace. Haunted by his past, Galoup spirals into a downward trajectory, ultimately meeting a tragic end.