There is a startling cut to two extreme long shots: the train has exited the frame in the far distance but left behind a long wake of yellow dust that evokes its presence. New Yorker Video 2002 DVD (USA) The Criterion Collection 2020 DVD (USA) The Criterion Collection 2020 Blu-ray (USA) Packaging Review Discuss Compare. Another surprising cut, this time to a series of medium close-ups of legionnaires, naked from the waist up, with bare heads, on a boat. Beau Travail (The Criterion Collection) by Denis Lavant. Quickly, Beau travail acquired a passionate following in film culture, was voted best film of the year in the Village Voice critics’ poll in 2000, when it had its U.S. theatrical run—only the first of many surveys on which it has featured prominently—and inspired an outpouring of writing in internet cinephile spaces, film magazines, and academic journals alike. Beau travail—the title can mean both “good work” and “beautiful work”—took her back to Africa to shoot a feature there for the first time since her debut. Blu-ray $27.99 DVD $22.99 VHS Tape from $119.00 Additional Blu-ray options: Edition Discs Price New from Used from Blu-ray September 15, 2020 In this entire sequence, which lasts just over three minutes, each edit manages to both ignite a frisson of surprise and convey meaning. Podcast logo by Josh Hollis. 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. All-in-all, it’s a strong academic feature, the type that has been disappointingly absent from a lot of Criterion’s releases lately. 8/13. Format: DVD. Beau travail is, on the one hand, a cerebral film: its narrative is rigorously minimal, it features little expository dialogue, and its elegant ellipses sustain a state of mystery. Clint Worthington is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Spool, as well as one of the founders of the website/podcast Alcohollywood in 2011. Even the military exercises are often tinged with an unexpected femininity since they were designed by a ballet choreographer. Film grain is present, very fine, but visible and cleanly rendered, providing that film-like look. Beau Travail (Criterion Collection) on DVD. Blu-ray $27.99 DVD $22.99 VHS Tape from $119.00 Additional DVD options: Edition Discs Price New from Used from DVD September 15, 2020 "Please retry" Even though women take up a minority of the screen time, their gaze (along with that of the filmmaker herself) plays a crucial role here by turning them into witnesses. A series of bold and unexpected cuts follows: to abandoned army tanks, then to quivering wild reeds, and then to shadows of human bodies moving gently to and fro, rhyming visually with the weeds. Jenkins also offers his own appreciation for the film and how the film had inspired him and his own work, mentioning how he watched it again after completing filming on Moonlight. Every fine rock and pebble in the desert setting, every mark on Denis Lavant’s face, every crystal in that salted beach late in the film, all of it comes to vivid life with incredible texture. 2/13. Interviews with the two leads also provide further context to the meandering nature of the shoot and the openness of Denis’ direction, and Godard engages in a selected scene commentary about the look of the film — a letdown from the prospect of a full-length commentary, but a decent half-measure regardless. 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Liked it? “Capturing bodies on film is the only thing that interests me,” Denis once said, and that credo amplifies the homoerotic charge of the male bodies here, their physicality and comradely intimacy often captured in ravishing close-ups. The film is surprisingly colourful, particularly in the night club sequences, and those colours look just spectacular, with wonderful reds, purples, blues, and more. Claire Denis remains one of our finest living filmmakers, and she’s been doing stellar, experimental work in her last decade of operation, from the sensuous rhythms of White Material to the high concept sci-fi sexuality of High Life. Having at one time been struck by Herman Melville’s accounts of masculine life and experience, Denis reached first for his poems and then his novella Billy Budd, Sailor, from which she extracted the central narrative device of the triangular relationship situated amid an all-male group. One of these tensions can be found in the origins of the project. While the male bodies of Beau travail have occupied a central place in both its iconography and the conversations it has sparked, far less has been said about the position and function of women—all of whom are black African—in this film. Like a lot of earlier Criterions, the features are sparse, but given the dying art of the audio commentary, that alone makes this one worth picking up. Cinema reveals itself to be a medium that conjures both with equal potency: a total medium of the senses. Plus, Beau travail is so dreamlike, you’d be hard pressed to find specific things to say about each scene anyway. The great French director talks about her formative experiences with the work of Carl Theodor Dreyer and gets wistful about Ingmar Bergman’s Summer with Monika. 4K Mastering, Special Edition, Restored, Subtitled. We use cookies to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic. This story is told in flashbacks by Galoup, who has since been expelled from the legion and lives in Marseille. Unavailable in North America for a long while, The Criterion Collection presents Claire Denis’ Beau travail on Blu-ray in its original aspect ratio of 1.66:1 on a dual-layer disc. 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. A young and popular new recruit, Sentain (Grégoire Colin), begins to attract the attention of Commandant Forestier after performing an intrepid rescue following a helicopter crash. These latter exchanges are particularly interesting; both here and in Naked City, Criterion offers us a glimpse of producer as auteur, and the way he would have to wrangle his films into the shape he wanted. 12/13. 1042. He is also a Senior Writer at Consequence of Sound, as well as the co-host/producer of Travolta/Cage. But it’s her 1999 masterwork Beau travail that cements her as a living legend, a hypnotic tone poem riffing on Melville that pits an aimless French Foreign Legion sergeant (Denis Lavant) against the handsome young recruit (Grégoire Colin) for whom his feelings flit between jealousy, rage, and desire. A scene from Beau Travail. She wished to explore not only the experience of being a foreigner in an unfamiliar land but also what it meant to be (in her words) “a foreigner to oneself.”. Denis and her longtime cinematographer, Agnès Godard, are masters of vivid and tactile image-making, capturing equally the elemental force of the sun-saturated East African landscape and the faces and bodies of the legionnaires in all their variety of race and ethnicity. You can purchase Beau travail from the Criterion Collection here. They appear in scenes at the disco, dancing with legionnaires as equals; as craftspeople, like the rug maker who also rescues and tends to the abandoned Sentain; and in groups that bemusedly observe on the street the exotic spectacle that is the legion.
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