Beau Travail [Criterion Collection] ( Blu-ray ) 09/15/20

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 (Denis Lavant) sows the seeds of his own ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit (Gregoire Colin) plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten. Denis and cinematographer Agnes 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.

CONDITION: NEW

MPAA rating : NotRated NR (Not Rated)
Director : Claire Denis
Media Format : Blu-ray, Subtitled
Release date : September 15, 2020
Actors : Denis Lavant
Studio : The Criterion Collection
Number of discs : 1