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	Kinoeye \| French film: Claire Denis' Beau travail (1999)
		Beau travail's insertion of military life into a performative framework reaches its highest dramatic point in the scene where Galoup and Sentain perform their rivalry in front of their fellow legionnaires.
		In its emphatic choreographic dimension, Beau travail conforms to what Deleuze calls "the requirement of the cinema of bodies," which is that "the character [be] reduced to his own bodily attitudes."[10] The character becomes a summation of gestures rather than a preconceived and abstract compendium of psychological traits.
		By means of an "irrational cut,"[12] that takes us from Galoup's recumbent body to his dancing body, Beau travail thwarts the principle of causality— thoughts of suicide/death as outcome— and welcomes the interference of a physical vitality that is capable of overturning the predictable course of the film's final images.
	www.kinoeye.org /03/07/delrio07.php (3185 words)

	Beau Travail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Beau Travail is Herman Melville's Billy Budd, updated to more recent times.
		Beau Travail is foremost a visual movie, with a large amount of screentime devoted to the male physique.
		Beau Travail contains most of what people think are stereotypical of bad French films, long monologues going nowhere, little action, and a bizarre ending.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/beau_travail.html (307 words)

	Salon Movie Review \| "Beau Travail" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Her remarkable new film, "Beau Travail" ("Good Work"), is about the waves made by a newcomer in a society of outsiders who have created their own world.
		If "Beau Travail" were made from the viewpoint of the characters rather than from Denis' outsider's stance, the movie might be awash in the homoeroticism that pervades Melville's story.
		"Beau Travail" has much more to do with the alluring and repellent Galoup than with Colin's Sentain (as in his other performances, Colin is the tabula rasa of contemporary French movies), and he's not the deepest character to put at the center of a movie.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2000/03/31/beau_travail/print.html (1794 words)

	Beau Travail: Some Call it Loving
		In Beau Travail, we are more likely to see a face, then an object (perhaps framed through a window, or hand-held, to suggest a character's vision), and then an immediate transition to another scene, making it impossible for us to verify what is going on.
		Many appreciations of Beau Travail stress the way in which it depicts male bodies, relating this on the one hand to a nexus of masculinity and war, and on the other to a theme of homoeroticism.
		Beau Travail began, as Denis recounts it, as a contribution to a TV series on the theme of 'foreignness'.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/01/13/beau.html (3634 words)

	Neil Young's Film Lounge
		Well, Beau Travail turns out to be a combination of both extremes - at times it is an almost parodic example of how highbrow films can stray over the line between art and arty, but, more often, it's a bold cinematic vision of a world within the world.
		This elliptical approach is harder to pull off than it looks, and Denis pieces together her movie with a judicious eye (small details: a 'straight edge' tattoo across shoulderblades, the pulsing of a vein in an arm) and ear.
		Beau Travail make demands of its audience, but in a way which panders to what that audience has come to expects a 'good work', in moviegoing terms to be.
	www.jigsawlounge.co.uk /film/beautravail.html (922 words)

	Beau travail / Good Work / 1999 / film review / Claire Denis / Denis Lavant
		Beau Travail is a profoundly sensual work, distinguished mainly by a visual style of very high artistic calibre.
		This is a style which Denis often employs in her films, but it is perfectly suited to Beau Travail, which is a film about subconscious desire and unspoken malice, viewed from a distance.
		Beau Travail is a very different work to the novel by Herman Melville on which it is based.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_Beau_Travail_rev.html (722 words)

	'Beau Travail': A Military Ballet Under the Sun
		"Beau Travail" hews to the basic outlines of Melville's fable, which was set in the British Navy in 1797, but the story is really just a pretext for what emerges as a woman's rapt meditation on an all-male society, its pecking order and its punishing rituals of authority, repression, discipline and honor.
		"Beau Travail" de-emphasizes Melville's allegory to the point that the story is almost incidental.
		"Beau Travail," which the New York Film Festival is showing tonight at 9 and tomorrow at 6 P.M. at Alice Tully Hall, ends with a thrilling and unexpected leap in a scene of frenzied Dionysian release.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/092899ny-beau-film-review.html (601 words)

	beau.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		In fact, BEAU TRAVAIL has earned Denis the best reviews of her career, garnering the attention of critics who've ignored or dismissed her earlier work.
		BEAU TRAVAIL is built around the memories of Galoup (Lavant, the pug-faced star of Léos Carax's first three films), who used to be a sergeant at a French Foreign Legion outpost in the country of Djibouti (where Denis grew up), located on the Horn of Africa.
		Charles Taylor's eloquent review of BEAU TRAVAIL in SALON devotes a great deal of space to an analysis of its characters: a useful exercise, but one that seems a little pointless to me. Even the motivations of Galoup, who's the only real full-fledged character, remain opaque.
	home.earthlink.net /~steevee/beau.html (1010 words)

	Beau Travail Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Beau Travail succeeds most when it strays from the narrative and shows us impressionistic glances at a legionnaire's life.
		Extremely light on dialogue, Beau Travail relies heavily on music to carry the story, and the results are sublime.
		With Beau Travail, Denis tries to grapple with what makes a man a man and to explore the components of male jealousy as it occurs within a single-sex environment.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=129779 (916 words)

	Beau Travail
		In her latest film, BEAU TRAVAIL, Claire Denis has taken on a seemingly impossible challenge - to evoke with images the "central stream of what we feel" while emptying the picture of all but the most rudimentary words, thoughts and story.
		Her extremely avante- garde approach to story is the source of Beau Travail's unusual power.
		Beau Travail sets its sights on the utterly mundane, the ordinary, the waiting around, the act of doing nothing important.
	www.cinescene.com /dash/beautravail.html (897 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: DVD: Beau Travail [1999] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Beau Travail is a modern-day update of Billy Budd, although the plot is much changed and the characters more ambiguous.
		While this is doubtlessly part of director Denis' intent, and while I have admired many a film with a notably elusive touch, my ultimate reaction to BEAU TRAVAIL is that it is a rather superficial exercise in style over substance, and I cannot say that it leads me to interest in the director's other work.
		In passing, I also note that BEAU TRAVAIL is often marketed as a film with homoerotic context and imagery, but I personally did not find it so.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004Y3PJ (1039 words)

	NEWCITYCHICAGO.COM: Street Smart Chicago
		Denis was content to examine the ripple of a young man's bare shoulders (Colin Gregoire, cast again in "Beau Travail") as he fantasizes about an employer's wife, to move without hesitation into his sex dreams as if they were real.
		"Beau Travail" is exquisite, mysterious and -- at the instant its astonishingly cathartic, heartbreaking climactic scene cuts to fl -- perfection.
		A man's life in all its torment and reserve, its blasted potential and its grand thirst for physical release and spiritual transcendence: it is there in the most unlikely guise which I cannot give away.
	www.newcitychicago.com /chicago/film-2000-05-25-378.html (573 words)

	'Beau Travail'
		Such is the hero's psychosexual situation in Claire Denis' provocative "Beau Travail," firmly inspired by -- and loosely adapted from -- Melville's "Billy Budd," garnished with related existential themes from Camus' "The Stranger."
		"Beau Travail" is her lyrical exploration of the most repressed Euro-emotional conflict in the most exotic African setting -- a kind of "Lawrence of Arabia" meets "Lord of the Flies." Its subtle homoeroticism is all the more fascinating coming from her female instead of male perspective -- and spellbinding visually.
		Her pace and photographic composition of the training rituals are odes to the masculine body and mystique, stark images of raw muscular beauty, shirtless men whose movements are more like dance than military exercises -- more choreographed than directed -- to an appropriately spare, minimalist musical score.
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20000825beau.asp (454 words)

	Long Pauses
		A loose adaptation of Billy Budd, it transposes Melville's sea voyage to a French foreign legion outpost in East Africa, where the Claggart character (Sergeant Galoup, played brilliantly by Denis Lavant) plots the inevitable destruction of Gilles Sentain (Grégoire Colin), who stands in for Billy.
		Instead, Beau Travail foregrounds the concerns of much contemporary Melville scholarship and would probably make a wonderful teaching tool because of it.
		Beau Travail is also just a beautiful film to look at — stunning images cut together using a poetic logic that is part Eisenstein montage, part neo-realism, part Tarkovsky mysticism.
	www.longpauses.com /blog/2003/02/beau-travail.html (412 words)

	Movie Review - Beau Travail - eFilmCritic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Many of Denis’ films concern immigrants in France or are set in Africa -- as is BEAU TRAVAIL -- and the language barrier is an important component of the milieu.
		In many ways BEAU TRAVAIL can be seen as a cinematic military ballet with choreographed sequences of soldiers doing daily exercises.
		BEAU TRAVAIL accumulates so much tension that thankfully it ends with a much-needed blissful cathartic note that can be seen as either a cinematic form of redemption or just an aesthetically pleasing way to end a film.
	efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=4398&reviewer=119 (858 words)

	Foreign cinema - Salon
		Claire Denis' "Beau Travail," which plays the New York Film Festival Tuesday and Wednesday, has yet to find a U.S. distributor and I can only hope that a wider American audience will soon get a chance to see this remarkable and maddening picture.
		The eroticism in "Beau Travail" comes from the way Denis and her cinematographer Agnes Godard (whose work here places her among the ranks of the greatest cinematographers now working) look at their camera subjects: Two Legionnaires circling each other underwater with knives in a training exercise might be some unidentifiable marine-human hybrid.
		Above all, "Beau Travail" is a reminder of how movies can surprise you.
	dir.salon.com /story/ent/log/1999/09/28/beau/index.html (691 words)

	Beau Travail (Subtitled) : Read reviews and compare prices at Ciao.co.uk
		In "Beau Travail"/"Good Work" (1999), French director Claire Denis' film inspired by Herman Melville's "Billy Budd", we are never quite sure why officer Galoup harbors such a disdain for new legionnaire Gilles Sentain, only that he does.
		Claire Denis' "Beau Traivail" is arguably the most significant French film of the last ten years and, if it is an indicator of things to come, is good news for French cinema in the new century.
		Beau Travail is the story of a group of French Legionnaires based in Madagascar.
	dvd.ciao.co.uk /Beau_Travail__36301?xid=37d04ef4a0b29c4d0d4a00d41c51d80d84 (577 words)

	beautravail
		Beau Travail literally means beautiful work, and this film is all that and more.
		The boredom of the day is broken up by work details, while the nights are reserved for the local discos where they dance Western style with the ribald African women and pretend to have found satisfaction with this fantasy arrangement.
		Beau Travail is the memories of such pleasures and such a need to fit in somewhere even if it is into something that appears as useless as the Legion, which doesn't seem to have any purpose anymore without the days of French colonization and the Algerian war.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/beautravail.htm (1369 words)

	Beau Travail
		The twenty or so men at the center of Beau Travail are chronically shirtless French Foreign Legionnaires stationed in the small African nation of Djibouti, forever practicing their grueling, sometimes yoga-like, often confounding physical exercises by the shore of the Red Sea.
		In fairness, Beau Travail's reliance on Melville proves so minimal, though, that one is on shaky ground to fault Denis and co-scripter Jean-Paul Fargeau for blowing their analogy.
		However, when Beau Travail pursues a different agenda autonomous of Melville, the relationships among the characters and the inconsistent perspective hopelessly obscure what that separate agenda might be.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /beautrv2.html (1021 words)

	iFMagazine.com Reviews - BEAU TRAVAIL
		Claire Denis’ new film, BEAU TRAVAIL, is a poetically austere work of beauty that emphasizes place over character and mood over plot.
		Many of Denis’ films concern immigrants in France or are set in Africa -- as is BEAU TRAVAIL -- and the language barrier is an important component of the milieu.
		BEAU TRAVAIL accumulates so much tension that thankfully it ends with a much-needed blissful cathartic note that can be seen as either a cinematic form of redemption or just an aesthetically pleasing way to end a film.
	www.ifmagazine.com /review.asp?article=481 (835 words)

	6néma.com - Beau Travail de Claire Denis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		BEAU TRAVAIL (France, 1999) de Claire Denis avec Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet.
		Il faut au spectateur de Beau Travail un peu de patience, mais l'immersion en vaut la peine.
		Le beau silence fait ressortir la force de suggestion des plans : échanges de regards, efforts, fêtes.
	www.6nema.com /BeauTravail/critic_beautravail.htm (430 words)

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		Mais je naviguais au ralenti sous l'effet des neuroleptiques, toujours prescrits, incapable d'effectuer le travail correctement alors qu'on me demandait de le faire comme si rien ne s'était passé.
		Les collègues, les inspecteurs du travail, les secrétaires m'accueillirent par des « Oh, tu as un peu grossi !...
		J'avais beau répéter que j'étais incapable de faire plus, qu'il fallait me laisser du temps pour me réadapter à la vie active, que j'étais sous traitement...
	www.harcelement.org /article144.html (1301 words)

	Beau travail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Three years and three viewings later, I think Beau travail is indeed marvelous; my own first-pass review, still archived here, seems totally out of faith with Denis' project.
		Yes, viewers looking for a direct transposition of Melville to the screen will be frustrated by Beau travail, as will those with an uncontrolled appetite for narrative.
		An ungenerous interpretation of my changes-of-mind on Beau travail and Apocalypse Now might infer that my oppositional stance simply relented in the face of more established critics' overwhelming enthusiasm.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /beautrav.html (323 words)

	Beau Travail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Inspired by Herman Melville's "Billy Budd", Beau Travail is the most provocative and accomplished film yet by French director Claire Denis (Chocolat, I Can't Sleep, Nenette and Boni).
		This simple tale, distilled to the essence of a ballad or poem, is drenched with male eroticism and cast in the form of a languorous tropical dream.
		Set against the stunning east African enclave of Djibouti, Beau Travail follows a troupe of men in a small French Foreign Legion outpost.
	www.newyorkerfilms.com /nyf/synopsis.jsp?catalogNo=NYD75002 (164 words)

	The Daily Page: Going-Out: Movies: Reviews: Beau Travail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		The result is that Beau Travail may be the only film about the French Foreign Legion in which nary a shot is fired--not on-screen, anyway.
		When the men in Beau Travail perform their morning exercises, Denis slows the camera down, lingering on their arms, their legs, their chests and butts.
		There's a monastic feeling about the film as the men, in group formation, wash and iron their clothes, laboring over the crease in a pair of pants like it was the key to the Kingdom of God.
	www.thedailypage.com /going-out/movies/reviews/movieReview.php?intReviewID=141 (873 words)

	Beau Travail
		Claire Denis, talking about her new film, Beau Travail, is so unassuming, so understated and matter-of-fact, that the listener might be misled to think the product is less than a carefully thought out, very deliberately worked piece of cinema.
		Commissioned to make a film on the broad theme of "being a foreigner," Denis, who was raised in French colonial Africa, was drawn to an African location and chose Djibouti, a former French territory, lodged between Ethiopia and Somalia, where the Red Sea spills into the Gulf of Aden.
		Narrated in voiceover by the central character, Sergeant Galoup (Denis Lavant), Beau Travail uses minimal dialogue in telling a story that is simply plotted, but complicated in overtones and undertones, much of which is provided by subtle suggestion and richly ambiguous imagery.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/BeauTravail.htm (731 words)

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