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1999
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Virtual
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Drama
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Directed by Claire Denis

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.

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