It isn't a terrible film, and it isn't really a bad one, yet it doesn’t do much of anything good—it must be said though: that ending is legendary. Directed by Claire Denis. In Claire Denis’ Beau Travail (1999), the eminence of doom is almost palpable; from the foregrounded terrain of war, to the protagonist Galoup’s (Denis Lavant) exclusion from the taut brotherhood of legionnaires and his reflections on mortality, it is a text concerned … The film is about the Legionnaire's life, and is mostly a series of images of the soldiers camped out and living in a stark desert environment. However, instead of the maritime setting of the novella, the movie takes place in Djibouti where the protagonists are soldiers in the French Foreign Legion. Ending with the most surprising and provocative coda since A Taste Of Cherry, Beau Travail is a major achievement in new French cinema. "Beau Travail" (1999) is directed by Claire Denis (Chocolat, White Material). Claire Denis’ latest film, High Life, will be screened at IU Cinema on June 13 and 14 at 7 pm as part of the International Arthouse Series. There is almost no acting so the movie lacks the … Beau Travail movie reviews & Metacritic score: The soldiers of a small French Foreign Legion outpost spend their days practicing drills and exercising.

With Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet. It's not often you can announce that the ending of a film is several shades greyer than the more fixed ending of the book on which it is based. The film may move at a slow pace and have little dialogue, but these criticisms are completely overshadowed by its compelling visuals and intriguing ending. Beau travail (1999 France 90 mins) Prod Co: Le Sept-Arte/SM Films/Tanaïs Productions Prod: Patrick Grandperret, Jérôme Minet Dir: Claire Denis Scr: Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, based on Herman Melville’s novella Billy Budd, Sailor Phot: Agnès Godard Ed: Nelly Quettier Prod Des: Arnaud de Moleron Mus: Charles Henri de Pierrefeu, Eran Tzur Cast: Denis Lavant, Michel […] The 100 Greatest Films of All Time In our biggest ever film critics’ poll, the list of best movies ever made has a new top film, ending the 50-year reign of Citizen Kane. Beau travail is a 1999 French movie directed by Claire Denis that is loosely based on Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd. Beau Travail does not work at all in the way that it was intended, and thusly most all of the execution falters as due part to this. Beau travail looks into the life of a platoon of legionnaires stationed in North Africa. This film focuses on an ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his …

In the same ways 1999's Beau Travail transformed Herman Melville's Billy Budd into a trance-like mood piece, 2001's Trouble Every Day flipped … For straight audiences, the ending of Beau Travail is Galoup’s pitiable triumph, but to a gay audience there is a danger of his suicide being read as something more deeply troubling: the ultimate act of contrition for simply having queer desires in a heterosexual world.

Beau Travail is available on DVD from the UK’s Artificial Eye and international distributors.