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Beau Travail - The Criterion Collection

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Released: 28th September 2020. With her ravishingly sensual take on HERMAN MELVILLE’s Billy Budd, Sailor, CLAIRE DENIS (White Material) 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 (Mauvais sang’s DENIS LAVANT) sows the seeds of his own ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit (35 Shots of Rum’s GRÉGOIRE COLIN) plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of BENJAMIN BRITTEN. Denis and cinematographer AGNÈS GODARD (Let the Sunshine In) 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. Special Features New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Agnès Godard and approved by director Claire Denis, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack  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

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  • Details

    Released:
    28th September 2020
    Category:
    World Cinema
    Studio:
    Sony Pictures Home Ent.
    Format:
    Blu-ray
    Barcode:
    5050629865233
  • Description

    With her ravishingly sensual take on HERMAN MELVILLE’s Billy Budd, Sailor, CLAIRE DENIS (White Material) 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 (Mauvais sang’s DENIS LAVANT) sows the seeds of his own ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit (35 Shots of Rum’s GRÉGOIRE COLIN) plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of BENJAMIN BRITTEN. Denis and cinematographer AGNÈS GODARD (Let the Sunshine In) 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.

    Special Features
    • New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Agnès Godard and approved by director Claire Denis, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack 
    • 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
    Region Code:
    Region B
    Duration:
    93 minutes
    Original Language:
    French
    Extras:
    Language(s): French, Subtitles: English, Interactive Menu
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