Beau Travail (1999) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)
Beau Travail (1999) (Blu-ray) (UK Import)
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- Country of origin:
- Frankreich, 1999
- Age release:
- Dieser Titel ist nicht FSK-geprüft.
Delivery to minors is not possible.
Infos zu Titeln ohne Jugendfreigabe - Item number:
- 10251934
- UPC/EAN:
- 5050629865233
- Release date:
- 28.9.2020
- Series:
- Criterion Collection
- Genre:
- Drama
- Playing time ca.:
- 90 Min.
- Director:
- Claire Denis
- Actor:
- Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Gregoire Colin
- Film music:
- Eran Tzur
- Language:
- Französisch
- Sound Format:
- stereo
- Picture:
- Widescreen
- Subtitles:
- Englisch
With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, Claire Denis firmly established 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) plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten. Denis and cinematographer Agnès Godard fold military and masculine codes of honor, colonialism’s legacy, destructive jealousy, and repressed desire into shimmering, hypnotic images that ultimately explode in one of the most startling and unforgettable endings in all of modern cinema.
Specials
New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Agnès Godard and approved by director Claire Denis, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack on the Blu-ray
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 film scholar Judith Mayne
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Girish Shambu
