Beau Travail (2000)

R05/03/2000Drama1h 33m
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Maybe freedom begins with remorse.

Overview

Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Denis Lavant

    Galoup

  2. Cast 1

    Michel Subor

    Commander Bruno Forestier

  3. Cast 1

    Grégoire Colin

    Gilles Sentain

  4. Richard Courcet

    Legionnaire

  5. Cast 1

    Nicolas Duvauchelle

    Legionnaire

  6. Adiatou Massudi

    Legionnaire

  7. Mickael Ravovski

    Legionnaire

  8. Cast 1

    Dan Herzberg

    Legionnaire

  9. Giuseppe Molino

    Legionnaire

Denis Lavant is good in this powerfully delivered reminiscence of soldier "Galoup". Having previously been stationed with his French regiment in Djibouti, director Claire Denis now takes us on a gently paced but effective retrospective as he revisits his time there where his life of discipline and routine gradually becomes compromised as he takes a bit of a shine to the newly arrived, confident and lithe, recruit "Sentain" (Grègoire Colin). The photography here is striking, as is the repetitiveness of their rather pedestrian existence. They spend most of their time, well, killing it! Their per...

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Original LanguageFrench 

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