Beau Travail

New Yorker Films | Release Date: March 31, 2000

7.5	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 35 Ratings

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OlivierPielJun 22, 2020

91% score and I never felt more let down. When a director uses voice over for exposition it is a clear sign that he/she failed to articulate his/her ideas with images...which should be his job. Sadly, this is the case here and shows that a91% score and I never felt more let down. When a director uses voice over for exposition it is a clear sign that he/she failed to articulate his/her ideas with images...which should be his job. Sadly, this is the case here and shows that a film adaptation of a book (Melville's Billy bud) will never be faithful and never be as interesting from a "psychological" experience.
This film is therefore a failure. And it is not anti-intellectualism and snobbery to rail against it. It is the opposite. People comment "it is beautiful""it is poetic" without further explanations. The highest form of vanity and stupidity, just to feel vindicated by others....
PS: And it gives a bad name to French cinema and culture, already plagued by arrogance and navel gazing.… Expand

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BladeLover2049Oct 30, 2018

The poetic side of a repressed squad of soldiers. Beatiful.A movie where the landscapes are so beautiful, the looks so exciting and peace is the story's storyteller.

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JeffAJan 1, 2010

Ugh, another pretentious, boring "art" film. Truly lame. What is it with the french? I see so many of the worst films coming from there.

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YvanDec 9, 2009

A stunning, melancholy film. Easily one of the best of the decade.

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JohnMFeb 14, 2008

Beautiful. And that ending..... elusive, yet unforgettable. One of the best concluding sequences I've ever seen.

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MaxA.Dec 17, 2006

Brooding, plodding, self-conscious and silly. This is a caricature of a French art film. It goes nowhere for an hour and a half while the protagonist poses and smokes lots of cigarettes. In a word: merde.

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LowbrowCinemaNov 27, 2013

Claire Denis consistently breaks the boundaries of conventional filmmaking without resorting to pretension. BEAU TRAVAIL may just be her masterpiece, though I have a true fondness for TROUBLE EVERY DAY.

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