Beau travail
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Essential Cinema/4K Restoration
Beau travail
Directed by Claire Denis
Saturday, June 20, 6 pm | BUY TICKETS
Sunday, June 21, 3 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed, Alliance Française, and Women in Film-KY members
“A masterpiece.” —Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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 (Grégoire Colin) 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. 1999, France, 4K DCP, in French with English subtitles, 93 minutes. Recommended for 16+.
Essential Cinema/4K Restoration
Beau travail
Directed by Claire Denis
Saturday, June 20, 6 pm | BUY TICKETS
Sunday, June 21, 3 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed, Alliance Française, and Women in Film-KY members
“A masterpiece.” —Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
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 (Grégoire Colin) 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. 1999, France, 4K DCP, in French with English subtitles, 93 minutes. Recommended for 16+.