BEAU TRAVAIL (15) 1998 FRANCE DENIS, CLAIRE £19.99
Director Claire Denis’ intensely physical study of tensions within a
platoon of legionnaires stationed in North Africa. Fearing for his
position within the group, Sergeant-Major Galoup (Denis Lavant) is
growing increasingly jealous of the popular new recruit Sentain
(Grégoire Colin) and decides to bring about his downfall. Eventually,
when the platoon have left on a series of exercises, Galoup manages to
provoke Sentain into a direct confrontation, the two of them coming
face-to-face for the last time in an incredible sequence set against the
harsh, rocky coastal landscape and the music of Benjamin Britten’s
‘Billy Budd’.
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