BEAU TRAVAIL - BLU-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1999
• Genre: Drama, War
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Dan Herzberg, Giuseppe Molino, Michel Subor, Djamel Zemali, Denis Lavant, Marta Tafesse Kassa, Mickael Ravovski, Grégoire Colin, Bernardo Montet, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Thong Duy Nguyen, Marc Veh, Gianfranco Poddighe, Richard Courcet, Dimitri Tsiapkinis, Abdelkader Bouti, Jean-Yves Vivet, Adiatou Massudi, Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Herman Melville, Patrick Grandperret, Agnès Godard, Nelly Quettier, Charles Henri de Pierrefeu, Eran Zur
• Director: Claire Denis
• Runtime: 1:33
• Company: La Sept-Arte, Pathe Television, S.M. Films, Tanaïs Productions, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie