Beau Travail - Wikipedia
Beau Travail (pronounced [bo tʁa.vaj], French for "good job" or "nice work") is a 1999 French arthouse psychological drama film directed by Claire Denis, who co-wrote the screenplay …
Beau Travail (1999) - IMDb
Beau Travail: Directed by Claire Denis. With Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet. An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti.
Blood and sand: what makes Beau Travail great | Sight and …
Jun 7, 2012 · In this essay making the case for contenders in S&S’s poll to find the Greatest Film of All Time, we revisit Beau Travail, Claire Denis’s rapturous 1998 exploration of male identity …
Beau travail: A Cinema of Sensation - The Criterion Collection
Sep 15, 2020 · Quite simply, Beau travail features one of the most astonishing endings in cinema. Galoup, at home in Marseille, fastidiously makes his bed, lies down in it, and places a gun on …
Beau Travail (1999): Repressed Masculinity Dances Itself Off a Cliff
Jul 17, 2025 · Claire Denis’ Beau Travail is considered a masterpiece by many, hailed as “one of the best films of the 1990s” by critics who probably also enjoy watching sand trickle through an …
Beau Travail (2000) Full Movie Summary & Plot Explained
Read the complete plot summary of Beau Travail (2000) with spoiler-filled details, twists, and thematic breakdowns. Discover the story’s meaning, characters’ roles, and what makes the …
Beau Travail - Apple TV
Inspired by Herman Melville’s ‘Billy Budd’, Claire Denis’s ‘Beau Travail’ is a stunning combination of literature, music, poetry and dance that explores the near-mythical world of the French …
Beau Travail - Best Movies by Farr
The ferret-like Levain makes a loathsome villain, a hard little man with a past who we sense can only survive in the Legion. Played with restraint by Colin, his target Gilles is an innocent who’s …
Beau travail - BFI Southbank Programme Notes
Aug 15, 2023 · Directed by Claire Denis, and scripted by Denis and her regular writing partner Jean-Pol Fargeau around a loose riff on Herman Melville’s novella Billy Budd, Beau travail is …
Beau travail (1999) | The Criterion Collection
Beau travail 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.