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Beau travail
Title
Beau travail / une coproduction La Sept ARTE, Tanaïs Com, SM Films ; produit par Jérôme Minet et Patrick Grandperret ; avec la participation du Centre National de la Cinematographie ; scénario, Jean-Pol Fargeau et Claire Denis ; un film de Claire Denis.
ISBN
9781681437569
1681437562
Edition
Director-approved special edition.
Publication
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 videodisc (93 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sheet (color illustrations ; 47 x 37 cm, folded to 19 x 12 cm).
Medium
plastic
4 3/4 in.
stamping
Notes
Loosely based on Herman Melville's "Billy Budd, Sailor."
Originally released as a motion picture in 1999.
Wide screen.
4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Agnès Godard and approved by director Claire Denis.
Special features: New conversation between Denis and Barry Jenkins; new selected scene commentaries with Agnès Godard; new interviews with Denis Lavant and Grégoire Colin; Beau travail and the dance floor (new video essay by Judith Mayne); essay by Girish Shambu.
Director of photography, Agnès Godard ; editor, Nelly Quettier ; music, Eran Tzur.
French dialogue; optional English subtitles.
Summary
Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant sows the seeds of his ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
April 08, 2021
Series
The Criterion collection ; 1042
Credits
Director of photography, Agnès Godard ; editor, Nelly Quettier ; music, Eran Tzur.
Cast
Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet, Nicolas Duvauchelle.
System details note
DVD; region 1; NTSC, 16:9 widescreen presentation (1.66:1); Dolby digital stereo; color.
Audience
Rating: Not rated.
Videorecording number
CC3184DDVD The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Drama.
Feature films.
Military films.
Film adaptations.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Foreign language films - French.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Also listed under
Sept/Arte (Firm), production company.
Tanaïs Com (Firm), production company.
SM Films (Firm), production company.
Centre national de la cinématographie (France), production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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