Beau Travail - Paperback

Name: Beau Travail - Paperback
Brand: BooksCloud
SKU: 9781839027130
Price: 17.95 USD
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by Corinn Columpar

$17.95

Book Overview

Beau Travail (1998) is Claire Denis' bold, sensuous masterpiece. Loosely based on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor (1924), the film explores the complexities of desire, identity, and power within an all-male group of French Foreign Legionnaires stationed at a coastal outpost in the former colony of Djibouti, in East Africa.

The film cemented Denis' position as a leading auteur and visual poet. In this book, Corinn Columpar positions the film as a cinematic bid for freedom. She examines its formal innovations - particularly the use of the gaze, voice, and movement - to explain how Denis produces exhilarating possibilities narratively, affectively, and ideologically, while also situating the film within the histories of art cinema and postcolonial filmmaking.

ISBN	9781839027130
Author	Corinn Columpar
Publisher	British Film Institute
Genre	Education and Arts
Format	Paperback
Published	June 2026
Language	ENG- English
Pages	96
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print