DVD
2 of 2 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection
- OSHTEMO: Audiovisual Collection
Beau travail
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN, OSH)
Edition
Director-approved DVD special edition.
Languages
In French, with English subtitles.
Performers
Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Gregoire Colin, Richard Courcet, Nicolas Duvauchelle.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (93 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustration ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
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 our time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant sows the seeds of his own ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten. Denis and cinematographer Agnès Godard 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.
Notes
Adapted from Herman Melville's "Billy Budd, sailor."
Originally released as a motion picture in 1999.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Agnes Godard and approved by director Clair Denis ; new conversation between Denis and Barry Jenkins ; new selected-scene commentaries with Godard ; new interviews with actors Denis Lavant and Gregoire Colin ; new video essay by film scholar Judith Mayne ; new English subtitle translation.