Beau travail
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Asian films lead Toronto fest's best-of-decade poll (Reuters)...award winner "Still Life" and its 48 votes. French filmmaker Claire Denis earned fourth place for "Beau Travail" with 46 votes, followed by Wong Kar-wai's "In the Mood for Love" with 43 votes. Weerasethakul also earned sixth place for... In this article: Toronto, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Toronto International Film Festival, Still Life, Wong Kar-wai, Jia Zhangke, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Abbas Kiarostami, Ingmar Bergman, and Bela Tarr |
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | October 16, 2009
35 Shots of Rum DVD of the week
...love in a community of black Caribbean train drivers in Paris. Rating: * * * * Claire Denis (Beau Travail) has achieved a strange success with 35 Shots of Rum, going back to the Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu's wonderfully touching 1949...
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Wikipedia | October 28, 2009
The Rhythm of the Night (song)
...Kingdom it was released in September 1994 and reached #2, kept off by Whigfield - Saturday Night, and stayed in the UK Singles Chart for 18 weeks. The song was prominently featured in arthouse movie Beau travail, directed by Claire Denis.
In this article: The Rhythm of the Night, Claire Denis, Whigfield, Corona, Saturday Night, Italy, United Kingdom, and Israel
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International Herald Tribune - Culture | September 15, 2009
Movie Review '35 Shots of Rum': Struggling to Decipher International Relations and Individual Lives
...exquisite and expressive cinematography. The film's title refers to a feat of drinking that Lionel, who has an impressive ability to hold his liquor, vows to attempt on the appropriate occasion. When the moment arrives, it is at first not...
In this article: Claire Denis, Rum, Gregoire Colin, and Agnes Godard
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Denis Lavant
...actor. He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine in France, and he starred in Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), the 1999 film Beau Travail, directed by Claire Denis and Luminal by Italian director Andrea Vecchiato. Lavant is...
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Village Voice | July 14, 2009
(Kenneth) Anger Management, at Anthology
...ball play, charged with intermittent bursts of club techno, suggests a California riff on the hieratic fantasias of Claire Denis's Beau Travail-or the setup for a gay-porn orgy. The longest, most ambitious of the new videos is Ich Will!
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A.V. Club RSS Feeds | August 26, 2009
Film: The New Cult Canon:The Lovers On The Bridge
...featuring Denis Lavant's bizarre interpretive dance moves can possibly be topped. (Credit Claire Denis for putting hers at the very end of Beau Travail.) But the long hangover that follows has its fascinations, too, because as this...
In this article: Leos Carax, Mauvais Sang, Denis Lavant, Breathless, Modern Love, Juliette Binoche, and Francis Ford Coppola
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Independent.co.uk - Film & TV | July 11, 2009
35 Shots of Rum, Claire Denis, 100 mins, (12A)
...and forceful ones. Take Beau Travail: a Foreign Legion story mixing drama and dance, with a soundtrack of Benjamin Britten and Euro disco, and a central character borrowed from an early 1960s Godard film. Denis doesn't make films...
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Michel Subor
...Francois Picard). His most important role was his Bruno Forestier in Jean-Luc Godard's ''Le Petit Soldat, beside Anna Karina. He had a comeback in 1999 in Claire Denis's Beau Travail. His most recent movie is Claire Denis' L'Intrus in 2004.
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Salon | March 06, 2009
Tokyo!
...appeared in several of Carax's films, including "Mauvais Sang" (1986) and "Lovers on the Bridge" (1991), as well as Claire Denis' 2000 "Beau Travail" -- although Levant may be best known to American audiences for his starring role in a...
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Beau travail is a 1999 French movie directed by Claire Denis that is loosely based on Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd. 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. Parts of the soundtrack of the movie are from the opera by Benjamin Britten also based on the novella.
Back in France, master sergeant Galoup (Denis Lavant) remembers the time in the desert, where he led his men under the command of Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor). His life there consisted mostly of routine duties like supervising the physical exercise of his men.
("One of the cast had actually been in the Legion, so we took all their real exercises and did them together every day, to concentrate the actors as a group," said Denis. "We never said we were going to choreograph the film. But afterwards, when we started shooting, using Britten's music, those exercises became like a dance.")
One day, his troop is joined by Gilles Sentain (Grégoire Colin), whose physical beauty, social skills, and fortitude make Galoup envious. Repressed homosexual feelings on the part of Galoup are suggested.
When Sentain helps another soldier, violating previous orders by Galoup, Galoup sees a chance to destroy Sentain. As a punishment, he drives him out into the desert to make him walk back to the base. But Sentain does not return because Galoup has tampered with his compass, and Sentain cannot make his way out without it.
Even though Sentain is later found and rescued by a group of Djiboutis, Galoup is sent back to France by his commander for a court martial, ending his time in the Foreign Legion. The final scene suggests the possibility of his suicide.
- Name:
- Beau travail
- Country of Origin:
- France
- Release Date:
- January 01, 1999
- Directed By:
- Claire Denis
- Produced by:
- Patrick Grandperret
- Written By:
- Claire Denis
- Editor:
- Nelly Quettier
- Cinematography:
- Agnès Godard
- Music By:
- Charles Henri de Pierrefeu
- Distributed By:
- Pyramide Distribution
- Length:
- 90 mins
- Language:
- French, Italian, Russian
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