| 100 |
Rolling Stone
Unique and unforgettable.
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| 100 |
San Francisco Examiner
Elegant.
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| 100 |
Chicago Tribune
You may not like Beau Travail - which is, after all, a quintessential "critic's film" - but I think you'll have to admit it's been almost perfectly executed.
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| 100 |
The New York Times
A film that has the sweep and esthetic power of a full-length ballet.
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| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Riveting.
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| 100 |
Entertainment Weekly
(Denis's) visual style is hypnotic, rapturous, and she makes barren landscapes look gorgeous, hard men look vulnerable.
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| 100 |
Film.com
For anyone who wants to see wildly inventive, peerless filmmaking that's oblivious to market-place formulas, Beau Travail is an absolute must-see.
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| 100 |
Portland Oregonian
It easily is the most beautiful picture released in America so far this year, perhaps one of the most beautiful films ever made.
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| 100 |
Chicago Reader
Masterpiece.
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| 100 |
Village Voice
A movie so tactile in its cinematography, inventive in its camera placement, and sensuous in its editing that the purposefully oblique and languid narrative is all but eclipsed.
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| 90 |
LA Weekly
Brendan Bernhard
Leaving the theater, you feel not only as if you've been in a foreign country, but as if you'd gone there inside someone else's skin.
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| 90 |
Salon.com
Claire Denis' baffling and exhilarating "Billy Budd" smolders with heat-blasted rhythms and supercharged acting.
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| 90 |
Film.com
A lovely piece of work.
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| 89 |
Austin Chronicle
A stunning work of beauty, mystery, contemplation, and grit -- and like sands through the desert hourglass, these are the days of our lives.
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| 88 |
New York Daily News
"Chocolat" was just a warmup for the stunning display of the male form against National Geographic settings in her new Beau Travail.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
A ruggedly beautiful landscape of desert and sea provides a dramatic setting for a psychological drama told with the utmost rigor--and unabashed eroticism.
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| 70 |
TV Guide
Denis dispenses with most of Melville's hefty Christian symbolism in favor of the story's other great theme -- repressed homoerotic desire.
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| 66 |
Mr. Showbiz
The characters are barely characters, the story barely a story, and the elliptical filmmaking style that so besots Denis' many fans could drive you to drink.
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| 63 |
New York Post
So minimalist in characterization and dialogue that the plot all but evaporates -- and so does any dramatic power.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
If only Beau Travail had a more dramatic edge, this nicely done film wouldn't have felt so long.
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