Beau travail / une coproduction La Sept ARTE, Tanaïs Com, SM Films ; produit par Jérôme Minet et Patrick Grandperret ; avec la participation du Centre National de la Cinematographie ; scénario, Jean-Pol Fargeau et Claire Denis ; un film de Claire Denis.
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.
Container of (work): Beau travail (Motion picture)
Notes:
Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet, Nicolas Duvauchelle. Title from title frame. Loosely based on Herman Melville's "Billy Budd, Sailor." Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. Wide screen (1.66:1). 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 Agnès Godard; new interviews with actors Denis Lavant and Grégoire Colin; new video essay "Beau travail and the dance floor" by film scholar, Judith Mayne; new English subtitle translation; plus, an essay by critic Girish Shambu, "A cinema of sensation."
Summary:
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 the time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant sows the seeds of his ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten.
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