Beau Travail Denis Lavant

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S E A R C H D V D B e a v e r

(aka "Good Work")

directed by Claire Denis
France 1999

DVDs of Beau Travail are compared to the Blu-ray HERE

"In Beau Travail, director Claire Denis has reworked the old tale of Billy Budd with a French Foreign Legion-esq modern setting, but the undercurrent of jealousy and the eccentricities of male bonding and pride are still the same. Denis Lavent with his commanding screen presence plays Galoup, an ex-sergeant stationed in Africa. Galoup narrates and traces his exit from the legionnaires beginning with the arrival of some new recruits to the base. One of these is Sentain who we come to know as a stable soldier, fit and unflinching. Commander Bruno Forestier notices and stirs a deep rooted jealousy in Galoup. Wonderful desert shots and even better music capture the emptiness and loneliness of the soldiers.

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DVD Comparison:

New Yorker Video Region 1 - NTSC vs. Artificial Eye Region 2 - PAL

The AE is On the TOP 100 List of DVDs.

(New Yorker Video left, Artificial Eye right)

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Distribution	New Yorker Video Region 1 - NTSC	Artificial Eye Region 2 - PAL
Runtime	1:29:03 ( no adjustment for PAL speed-up )	1:29:03 (4 % PAL speedup)
Video	Widescreen - 1.62:1 16X9 enhanced Average Bitrate: 6.8 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s	Widescreen - 1.62:1 16X9 enhanced Average Bitrate: 5.57 mb/s PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s
	NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.
Bitrate: NY'er
Bitrate: Artificial Eye
Audio	French (Dolby Digital 2.0)	French (Dolby Digital 2.0)
Subtitles	English or None	English or None
Features:	Release Information: Production Company: New Yorker Video Aspect Ratio: Widescreen letterbox anamorphic - 1.62:1 (original aspect ratio) Discographic Information: DVD Encoding: Region 1 Layers: DVD 9, Dual layer, single side Extras: • Chapter Selection • Trailer Feature - (1.35 min) Pan and Scan • Trailer for : Fast Food fast Women (2:16), The Price of Milk (2:28) DVD Release Date: October 15, 2002 Keep Case Chapters 12	Release Information: Production Company: Artificial Eye Aspect Ratio: Widescreen anamorphic - 1.62:1 (original aspect ratio) Discographic Information: DVD Encoding: Region 2 Layers: DVD 9, Dual layer, single side Extras: • Scene selection, trailer (1.35) , filmographies DVD Release Date: 2000 Transparent Keep Case Chapters 17

Comments:

DVDs of Beau Travail are compared to the Blu-ray HERE

The New Yorker Video disc is a good PAL-NTSC conversion with very few of the associated artifacts of that transfer. It may be slightly behind the sharpness of the Artificial Eye disc, but not enough to warrant rating it being rated a catastrophe. The Artificial Eye disc has a lot of green ( see capture #1 ). In both DVDs the feature image has an aspect ratio in and around 1.62:1 .

The New Yorker has much clearer sub-titles and wins in extras (but just barely with two more trailers, Fast Food, Fast Women + The Price of Milk, over the Artificial Eye's filmographies of 4 principles - Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Gregoire Colin and Director Claire Denis). The AE is sharper, but it is negligible, certainly not the sole reason to get a region free player. Both are 16X9 enhanced.

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The Films in My Life by Francois Truffaut, Leonard Mayhew	French Cinema: A Student's Guide by Philip Powrie, Keith Reader	Agnes Varda by Alison Smith	Godard on Godard : Critical Writings by Jean-Luc Godard	Notes on the Cinematographer by Robert Bresson	Robert Bresson (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs, No. 2) by James Quandt	French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present by Remi Fournier Lanzoni	Truffaut: A Biography by Antoine do Baecque and Serge Toubiana