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Criterion Collection: Beau Travail
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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With her ravishingIy sensuaI take on Herman MelviIle’s BilIy Budd, SaiIor, Claire Denis firmly established 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 ultimateIy expIode in one of the most startIing and unforgettable endings in aII of modern cinema. DlRECTOR-APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION 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 fiImmaker Barry Jenkins • New seIected scene commentary with Godard • New interviews with actors Denis Lavant and Grégoire CoIin • New video essay by film schoIar Judith Mayne • New EngIish subtitle transIation • PLUS: An essay by critic Girish Shambu |
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