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Billy Budd Meets Nemesis in the Desert
In 'Beau Travail'/'Good Work' (1999), French director Claire Denis' film inspired by Herman Melville's 'Billy Budd', we are never quite sure why officer Galoup harbors such a disdain for new legionnaire Gilles Sentain, only that he does. In this remote French Foreign Legion outpost in Djibouti, in... Read full review »
Not Good Work.
There was a review in one of the papers that claimed Beau Travail was like watching a ballet in the desert. I would elaborate and say that it was like watching a calistenic warm-up in the desert. Usually ballets have a point, or a story. When ballet becomes dance just for ballet's sake, then that's... Read full review »
Billy Budd Returns
Though most of the world got to see ?Beau Travail? last year, it has just reared its head here in the Bay Area. And it was worth waiting for. This adaptation of Herman Melville?s ?Billy Budd? by filmmaker Claire Denis is nothing short of a masterpiece.
Most of us are familiar with the...
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Atmosphere, Manly Atmosphere
Set in North Africa, in a training camp of the French Foreign Legion,
Beau Travail tells the story of the obsessive, disturbed relationship
between Sergeant Galoup and new recruit Sentain. A gorgeous creation
of atmosphere, this film is more like a dance piece than a
narrative...
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Beached Property
One of the last remaining disciples of the French New Wave, Claire Denis has hit her mark as a filmmaker fascinated with isolation and the exiled. For that reason the Herman Melville story Billy Budd was a perfect choice for the filmmaker. Perfect in idea, but certainly not in execution.
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Beau Travail
I frequently had a disquieting experience while driving on the interstate highway in Florida years ago. I'd attain a certain driving inertia, in which I'd be moving along steadily, strangely satisfied with my place in the world of motor vehicles, and then suddenly I'd realize there was something... Read full review »
Pas Tres beau
The French Foreign Legion. The term conjures up images of mysterious men in
pressed blue uniforms, camels (the beasts and the cigarettes), deserts, battles,
and palm tree ringed oases. The reality is far more mundane. The men, who,
more often than not are trying to escape someone or...
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