Beau Travail (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
Maybe freedom begins with remorse
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Blu-ray Details
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: September 15, 2020
- Originally Released: 1999
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Denis Lavant, Michel Subor & Grégoire Colin | |
Directed by | Claire Denis | |
Edited by | Nelly Quettier | |
Screenwriting by | Claire Denis & Jean-Pol Fargeau | |
Produced by | Patrick Grandperret | |
Director of Photography: | Agnès Godard |
Entertainment Reviews:
81%
TOMATOMETER
...A psychological drama told with the utmost rigor -- and unabashed eroticism....BEAU TRAVAIL is a work of deliberate and subversive sensuality...
Los Angeles Times
...Special...
Sight and Sound
...Shot with an impassioned love for the bodies and souls of men....Transporting...
Entertainment Weekly
Denis creates a work of quite breathtaking beauty.
Uncut
...Visually spellbinding....A film that has the sweep and aesthetic power of a full-length ballet...
New York Times
Product Description:
In loosely adapting Herman Melville's BILLY BUDD, Claire Denis has constructed a dreamy, detached visual poem that is at once somber and gorgeous. Denis transfers the tale's original location from the sea to the sparse landscape of East Africa's Djibouti. The film is narrated by Sergeant Galoup (Denis Lavant), a French Foreign Legion officer who is intimidated by the arrival of Sentain (Gregoire Colin). Galoup becomes jealous when his commander, Forestier (Michel Subor), begins showing the new recruit extreme favoritism, and after Sentain bravely aids in the rescue of a downed aircraft, Forestier bestows upon him a glowing commendation. Galoup, overcome with jealousy, recklessly acts out on his irrational emotion, with near tragic results.
Denis boldly composes BEAU TRAVAIL like a silent film, including several extended scenes of the soldiers training in a rhythmic, choreographed manner. Agnes Godard's hypnotic cinematography captures the beauty of the soldier's tanned bodies and photographs the landscape with a rhythm that is both haunting and poetic. In what may be one of cinema's most electric final shots, Denis gives Galoup a last chance at redemption, after his recent descent into jealousy and cruelty. It provides an invigorating conclusion to the film and proves that Denis is one of the world's most gifted artists.
Denis boldly composes BEAU TRAVAIL like a silent film, including several extended scenes of the soldiers training in a rhythmic, choreographed manner. Agnes Godard's hypnotic cinematography captures the beauty of the soldier's tanned bodies and photographs the landscape with a rhythm that is both haunting and poetic. In what may be one of cinema's most electric final shots, Denis gives Galoup a last chance at redemption, after his recent descent into jealousy and cruelty. It provides an invigorating conclusion to the film and proves that Denis is one of the world's most gifted artists.
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