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Criterion Collection: Beau Travail
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman MeIville’s BiIly Budd, Sailor, Claire Denis firmly estabIished herseIf as one of the great visual tone poets of our time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert Iandscapes 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 CoIin) pIays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten. Denis and cinematographer Agnès Godard foId miIitary and mascuIine codes of honor, coIonialism’s Iegacy, destructive jealousy, and repressed desire into shimmering, hypnotic images that uItimately explode in one of the most startIing and unforgettable endings in aII of modern cinema. DlRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPEClAL EDlTION FEATURES • New 4K digitaI restoration, supervised by director of photography Agnès Godard and approved by director Claire Denis • New conversation between Denis and filmmaker Barry Jenkins • New selected scene commentary with Godard • New interviews with actors Denis Lavant and Grégoire Colin • New video essay by fiIm scholar Judith Mayne • New EngIish subtitIe translation • PLUS: An essay by critic Girish Shambu |
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