Beau Travail Claire Denis Interview
Claire denis beau travail.
Beau travail claire denis interview. With denis lavant michel subor gregoire colin richard courcet. Claire denis remains one of our finest living filmmakers and shes been doing stellar experimental work in her last decade of operation from the sensuous rhythms of white material to the high concept sci fi sexuality of high life. Claire deniss film about legionnaires ends with a fearless thrilling dance by denis lavant but thats not its only choreographic beat.
A cinema of sensation. Claire denis welcome to the nft. Grafted together from a wide array of sources claire deniss most acclaimed film combines cerebral rigor sensorial intensity and a powerful meditation on masculinity and foreignness.
C laire deniss international breakthrough beau travail begins with a curious set of imagesthe first is a pan across a painting of a silhouette of soldiers in the french foreign legion done on the side of a rock wall in djibouti in the style of a cave paintinga faux ancient artwork that gives the impression that the french were in africa since time immemorial. Theyre saying its a new departure youve taken. Denis lavant from the epilogue dance in beau travail.
Beau travail 1999 dir. We never said we were going to choreograph the film. Unavailable in north america for a long while the criterion collection presents claire denis beau travail on blu ray in its original aspect ratio of 1661 on a dual layer disc.
Encoded at 1080p24hz the high definition presentation comes from a brand new 4k restoration scanned from the 35mm original camera negative. Directed by claire denis. Claire deniss film beau travail a luminous tale of desire and despair in the french foreign legion had an uncanny effect on me when i first watched it some years after its release in 1999.