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Director:
Writers:
Claire Denis (writer)
Jean-Pol Fargeau (writer)
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3 May 2000 (France) more
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This film focuses on an ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in Africa. full summary | add synopsis
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5 wins & 8 nominations more
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Decade in Review: 2000 Top Ten
 (From FilmExperience. 5 November 2009, 1:07 PM, PST)

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Desert Budd that never blooms more (60 total)

Cast

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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
Giuseppe Molino ... Legionnaire
Gianfranco Poddighe ... Legionnaire
Marc Veh ... Legionnaire
Thong Duy Nguyen ... Legionnaire
Jean-Yves Vivet ... Legionnaire
Bernardo Montet ... Legionnaire
Dimitri Tsiapkinis ... Legionnaire
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Also Known As:
Good Work (Europe: English title)
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Runtime:
Argentina:92 min | Australia:90 min | Italy:90 min | UK:93 min | USA:90 min
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Commander Bruno Forestier: If it weren't for fornication and blood, we wouldn't be here. more
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Desert Budd that never blooms, 20 July 2000
Author: Stephen Groenewegen (b1b2@zip.com.au) from Sydney, Australia

Beau Travail ("Good Work") is loosely based on Herman Melville's classic novella Billy Budd. Billy Budd was a tragedy brought about partly by the strictures of military discipline, but was really a story of masculinity and power; a powerful psychological study of three characters and personalities unable to coexist without damaging or destroying each other.

French director Claire Denis transfers the story from the eighteenth century British navy to a unit of the French Foreign Legion in an African outpost. The exotic backdrop of the Foreign legion - with its all-male bonding and strict discipline - is inspired. Having the film narrated by Galoup, the film's Claggart character, is not. Claggart was fascinating to Melville because he could discern no real reason for his hatred of Budd; it was ascribed to his nature and essentially unfathomable. Denis and the actor playing Galoup (Denis Lavant) seem to lack insight into his motives as well, so he's a poor choice to carry the story. Equally frustrating is Denis' lack of focus on Sentain (Gregoire Colin), the charismatic Budd who's supposed to drive the action. Instead, there's a lot of empty posing in the desert. The climax - the first real incident in an overlong film - is over too quickly to be satisfying.

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