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Beau Travail
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MPAA RATING: Not rated
Starring Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Gregoire Colin, and Richard Courcet
The soldiers of a small French Foreign Legion outpost spend their days practicing drills and exercising. Sergeant Galoup seems to be the perfect Legionnaire: a brooding, young loner who runs his troop efficiently until Sentain, a new recruit, arrives and threatens to upset the balance of his world.
| GENRE(S): | Drama |
| WRITTEN BY: |
Claire Denis
Jean-Paul Fargeau Herman Melville (story Billy Budd, Sailor) |
| DIRECTED BY: | Claire Denis |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: October 15, 2002 Video: October 15, 2002 Theatrical: March 31, 2000 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | France |
| LANGUAGE(S): | French (with English subtitles) |
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The average user rating for this movie is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Max A. gave it a2:
Brooding, plodding, self-conscious and silly. This is a caricature of a French art film. It goes nowhere for an hour and a half while the protagonist poses and smokes lots of cigarettes. In a word: merde.
Mike G gave it a 2:
The dancing is great, and the cinematography is wonderful. But it's a disjointed, often confusing movie, especially if you're not familiar with Billy Budd.
Matthew D. gave it a 10:
Pure cinema. Easily the most powerful movie I've seen in years. Claire Denis' masterwork. Simply beautiful.
Eric P. gave it a 3:
The tendency with some French films: to think that being vague can manufacture a sense of the profound. This is not the case. When the film was over, I simply didn't care about anything I had just watched. A saw little evidence of a creative vision being brought to life. It was shallow and lazy.
Jean-Claude V. gave it an 8:
Dark, sinister, and distinctly French, this film did everything right except for the stock footage and narrative. An terrific final scene.
Elliott gave it a 10:
It's like a marvelous ballet acted on the most breathtaking set you've ever seen.
Josh T. gave it a 10:
A mesmerizingly lyrical and enigmatic masterpiece; the best French film of the decade.
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