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1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 min.) : .flv file, sound |
| Summary |
With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville's "Billy Budd, Sailor," Claire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of our time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant (Denis Lavant) sows the seeds of his own ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit (Grégoire Colin) plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten. Denis and cinematographer Agnès Godard fold military and masculine codes of honor, colonialism's legacy, destructive jealousy, and repressed desire into shimmering, hypnotic images that ultimately explode in one of the most startling and unforgettable endings in all of modern cinema |
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Title from title frames |
| Credits |
Cinematography by Agnès Godard ; editor, Nelly Quettier ; original music, Eran Tzur and Charles Henri de Pierrefeu; includes excerpts from Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd |
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Denis Lavant, Grégoire Colin, Michel Subor |
| Event |
Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1999 |
| Notes |
In French with English subtitles |
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Film adaptations
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 fast |
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France. Armée. Légion étrangère -- Drama
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France. Armée. Légion étrangère fast |
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Soldiers -- France -- Drama
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Soldiers -- Djibouti -- Drama
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Garrisons -- Djibouti -- History
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Foreign films.
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Drama.
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War films.
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Motion pictures.
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Drama
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Motion Pictures
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plays (performing arts compositions)
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drama (literary genre)
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Soldiers
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Garrisons
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Armed Forces
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Drama
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Foreign films
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Motion pictures
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War films
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France -- Armed Forces -- Djibouti -- Drama
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France
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Djibouti
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War films
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Military films
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History
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Film adaptations
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Drama
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Feature films
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Military films.
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Film adaptations.
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Feature films.
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War films.
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War
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Adaptations cinématographiques.
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Streaming video
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Denis, Claire, 1948- film director, screenwriter.
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Fargeau, Jean-Pol, screenwriter.
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Minet, Jérôme, film producer.
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Grandperret, Patrick, film producer.
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Lavant, Denis, 1961- actor.
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Colin, Grégoire, actor.
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Subor, Michel, 1935-2022, actor
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Courcet, Richard, actor.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
Billy Budd.
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Godard, Agnès, cinematographer.
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Quettier, Nelly, film editor.
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Tzur, Eran, composer.
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Pierrefeu, Charles Henri de, composer
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Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, composer.
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Sept/Arte (Firm)
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Centre national de la cinématographie (France)
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Criterion Collection (Firm), distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm)
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