(aka "Good Work")
directed
by Claire Denis
France 1999
"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. A gripping film experience."
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| Distribution | New Yorker Video Region 1 encoded (North America) |
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| 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 |
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| Audio | French
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| Subtitles | English or None | English or None |
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• Trailer Feature - (1.35 min) Pan and Scan
DVD Release Date:
October 15, 2002 Chapters 12 |
Release Information: Aspect Ratio: Discographic Information: Extras: DVD Release Date:
2000 Chapters
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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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Recommended Reading in French Cinema (CLICK COVERS or TITLES for more information)
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The Films in My Life |
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 |
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