Beau travail [videorecording]
2013
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Director Claire Denis' intensely physical study of tensions within a platoon of legionnaires stationed in North Africa. Fearing for his position within the group, Sergeant-Major Galoup (Denis Lavant) is growing increasingly jealous of the popular new recruit Sentain (Grégoire Colin) and decides to bring about his downfall. Eventually, when the platoon have left on a series of exercises, Galoup manages to provoke Sentain into a direct confrontation, the two of them coming face-to-face for the last time in an incredible sequence set against the harsh, rocky coastal landscape and the music of Benjamin Britten's 'Billy Budd'.
Main title:
Beau travail [videorecording] / director, Claire Denis; writer, Claire Denis; writer, Jean-Pol Fargeau; producer, Jérome Minet.
Author:
Denis, Claire, directorTzur, Eran, musicLavant, Denis, actorColin, Grégoire, actorSubor, Michel, actor
Imprint:
Artificial Eye, 2013.
Collation:
1 videodisc (90 min.) : col.
Notes:
Made in 1998.Based on Herman Melville's 'Billy Budd'.Credits: music, Eran Tzur.DVDN.
Performers:
Cast: Cast: Denis Lavant, Grégoire Colin, Michel Subor, Richard Courcet, Marta Tafesse Kassa, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Adiatou Massidi, Dan Herzberg, Marc Veh, Giuseppe Molino.
Audience:
BBFC code: 15.
System details:
DVD.
Dewey class:
791.437
Language:
French
Subject:
BRN:
1693278