Beau Travail
by Claire Denis
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Director: Claire DenisDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Russian (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: NEW YORKER FILM
Movie Reviews of Beau Travail
Movie Review: A very personal experience
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is maddeningly slow. You really have to really be a certain kind of person to appreciate where Claire Denis is going here, and you have to willing to come along for the ride--the entire ride. I got it, and I loved it--but I also recognize that I'm probably in the minority.
Editorial reviews on the pretentious-side (e.g. the New Yorker) didn't have enough good things to say about Beau Travail. More down-to-earth reviews had a "What the heck???" feel to them.
For me, it was fortunate that I watched Beau Trvail in the theater--I was forced to yield a slice of my life over to the film. Being in an open and pensive mood also helped. Even then, it wasn't so much the movie itself but how it made me feel afterwards. It grew on me like a fungus, the neurons trying to process all of the subtext behind what (at the time) just seemed like 90 minutes of desert. After a few weeks, I found myself aching to connect again with the film, digesting every review I could find. The subway scenes peppered throughout the movie are telling, as are the forlorn Legionnaires singing of their lost-love. When the resolution comes, it is abrupt and powerful.
But this was a very personal experience, and my connection with the film probably says more about me as a person than anything about Beau Travail itself. Denis' "Friday Night" follows nearly the same pattern, but I found that film just as maddeningly slow but without the payoff.
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