Beau Travail

2000 • 1h 33m •

Drama

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★ 7.2/10

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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.

"Maybe freedom begins with remorse."

Top Billed Cast

Denis Lavant

Galoup

Michel Subor

Commander Bruno Forestier

Grégoire Colin

Gilles Sentain

Richard Courcet

Legionnaire

Nicolas Duvauchelle

Legionnaire

Adiatou Massudi

Legionnaire

Mickael Ravovski

Legionnaire

Dan Herzberg

Legionnaire

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2023-05-08

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 pe...