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As much poem as film. It requires patience, which it rewards at every languid turn. Mar 7, 2002 | Rating: A-
As much poem as film. It requires patience, which it rewards at every languid turn.
Chris Vognar
A masterpiece. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
A masterpiece.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A mélange of brooding appetites, where the inner strife of unanswered desire builds to a conclusion of quiet, tragic violence. Mar 27, 2019 | Full Review…
A mélange of brooding appetites, where the inner strife of unanswered desire builds to a conclusion of quiet, tragic violence.
Caroline Golum
Rhythm in Denis' sight is pejorative routine. Sep 24, 2003 | Rating: 92/100 | Full Review…
Rhythm in Denis' sight is pejorative routine.
Jon Lap
An imaginative drama about the dire effects of envy, that vicious emotion that spreads pain and agony everywhere it reaches. Mar 13, 2002 | Full Review…
An imaginative drama about the dire effects of envy, that vicious emotion that spreads pain and agony everywhere it reaches.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Beau Travail is an allegorical tale of revenge and jealousy set within a French Foreign Legion outpost in Africa. May 2, 2001 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Beau Travail is an allegorical tale of revenge and jealousy set within a French Foreign Legion outpost in Africa.
Ed Gonzalez
Winds up as a disappointment due to its languid pacing and a plastic sensibility as to what constitutes film art. In other words, it's typically French. Mar 24, 2001 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Winds up as a disappointment due to its languid pacing and a plastic sensibility as to what constitutes film art. In other words, it's typically French.
Chuck Rudolph
The problem is that this film lacks substance, talent and purpose, regardless of its language. Feb 14, 2001 | Rating: 62/100 | Full Review…
The problem is that this film lacks substance, talent and purpose, regardless of its language.
Janet Branagan
The final scene feels tragic; the rest of the movie is boring. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 2/4
The final scene feels tragic; the rest of the movie is boring.
Ian Waldron-Mantgani
Denis' film is as fluid as her nine others, demonstrating her skill at integrating story strands with her handsome visual sense and gift for evocation. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
Denis' film is as fluid as her nine others, demonstrating her skill at integrating story strands with her handsome visual sense and gift for evocation.
Wesley Morris
Achieves the stature of classic tragedy. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
Achieves the stature of classic tragedy.
Maria Garcia
Claire Denis' treatment of the modern French Foreign Legion rolls in its own time but the story that it weaves is well worth the wait. Very well filmed.
Super Reviewer
it's a visual poem over the thinly disguised bones of billy budd but it can't really be described, only experienced. the remarkable denis lavant strikes again. nice work indeed
Not an easy film to watch because it often goes back and forth from past to present. But visually, the film is gorgeous. The director knows where to frame her landscapes and how to frame her actors. Finally, the final sequence is just memorable. It might seem completely out of there, but there is more than it seems. The film is NOT straightforward in terms of narrative, but we just need to dig a little to understand deeply the soldiers.
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