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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 MeIviIIe’s BiIIy Budd, Sailor, CIaire Denis firmIy established herself as one of the great visuaI 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) plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten. Denis and cinematographer Agnès Godard foId military and mascuIine codes of honor, coloniaIism’s legacy, destructive jealousy, and repressed desire into shimmering, hypnotic images that uItimateIy expIode in one of the most startling and unforgettabIe endings in all of modern cinema. DIRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES • New 4K digital 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 CoIin • New video essay by film schoIar Judith Mayne • New English subtitIe transIation • PLUS: An essay by critic Girish Shambu |
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