This screening includes Beau Travail
- Date and time:
- Sat, Nov 10, 2012, From 3–4:33 pm
- Runtime:
- 1 hr 33 min
- Cost:
- $3 all tickets
About Beau Travail
- Rating:
- Year Released:
- 1999
- Format:
- Virtual
- Genres:
- Drama
- Metadata:
Inspired by Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, the film focuses on the lives of men in a small French Foreign Legion outpost, emphasizing the banality and ritual of their days in the scorching sun. Sergeant Galoup seems the ideal Legionnaire: a brooding loner, cut off from his past. He runs the troupe like a well-oiled machine, until the arrival of a new recruit threatens to upset the delicate balance. The film is a poetic and lyrical exploration of a special, very enclosed male world through its rituals, codes, and barely contained emotional conflicts, and resonates with the power of a Greek tragedy. In French with English subtitles.