BEAU TRAVAIL
Free
Ticket prices include a $2.00 online booking fee.
Aero Theatre | Introduction by the American Cinematheque’s Gwen Deglise.
Program begins with selected shorts: “The Little Story Of Gwen From French Brittany,” “Les Dites Cariatides” and “Dimensions of Dialogue.”
6:30pm Reception preceding screening, open to all!
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- RELEASED IN: 1999
- 90 MINUTES
- DIRECTED BY: CLAIRE DENIS
ABOUT THE FILM:
BEAU TRAVAIL, 1999, Janus Films, 90 min, France, Dir: Claire Denis.
Considered by many to be Claire Denis’ masterpiece, BEAU TRAVAIL sets Herman Melville’s classic novella Billy Budd in a distinctly modern milieu, telling a universal tale of jealousy while mining the intricate details of the French Foreign Legion’s presence in the Gulf of Djibouti. The journey begins backward, as former Foreign Legion officer Galoup (Denis Lavant) longingly recalls his days as a leader of men. As we soon discover, his downfall involves a homoerotic jealousy so destructive that the lives it touches will never be the same. Featuring Grégoire Colin and Michel Subor.
FORMAT: DCP
“The Little Story Of Gwen From French Brittany” (La petite histoire de Gwen la bretonne)”, 2008, 5 min Cine-Tamaris, Dir. Agnès Varda.
FORMAT: DCP
“Les Dites Cariatides”, 1984, Janus Films, 12 min. Dir. Agnès Varda.
FORMAT: DCP
“Dimensions Of Dialogue,” 1982, 12 min. Dir. Jan Svankmajer
FORMAT: DCP
