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Virtual Seminar: Beau Travail

Presented by Coolidge Corner Theatre at Online/Virtual Space

Sep 10 2020
Virtual Seminar: Beau Travail

Film critic and historian Imogen Sara Smith leads this virtual seminar on Claire Denis’s hypnotically beautiful drama.

With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, Claire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of our time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant (Denis Lavant) sows the seeds of his own ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit (Grégoire Colin) plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten. Denis and cinematographer Agnès Godard fold military ... view more »

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