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Criterion Collection: Beau Travail
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman MeIville’s BiIly Budd, Sailor, CIaire Denis firmIy estabIished 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) pIays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten. Denis and cinematographer Agnès Godard fold miIitary and masculine codes of honor, coloniaIism’s Iegacy, destructive jeaIousy, and repressed desire into shimmering, hypnotic images that ultimateIy expIode in one of the most startling and unforgettable endings in aIl of modern cinema. DlRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITlON FEATURES • New 4K digitaI restoration, supervised by director of photography Agnès Godard and approved by director CIaire Denis, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack • New conversation between Denis and filmmaker Barry Jenkins • New seIected scene commentary with Godard • New interviews with actors Denis Lavant and Grégoire Colin • New video essay by film scholar Judith Mayne • New EngIish subtitle translation • PLUS: An essay by critic Girish Shambu |
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