Beau travail [blu-ray]

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.

Note générale:

Title from container.

Adapted from 'Billy Budd, sailor' by Herman Melville.

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 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."

GVPL_PERFORMER:

Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet, Nicolas Duvauchelle.

GVPL_BIBLIO_538:

Blu-ray; region A; LPCM stereo; requires Blu-ray player.

Vedette-matière - nom collectif:

France. Armée. Légion étrangère -- Drama.

Terme de vedette-matière:

Veterans -- Drama.

Terme géographique:

Djibouti -- Drama.

Genre:

Melodramas (Motion pictures)