Beau travail

Jasmin 2022-01-19 08:02:12

Claire Denis is undoubtedly an author and director who has been overlooked by the public for a long time. She has entered the age of antiquity and still maintains vigorous vitality in the 21st century, constantly innovating. "Forbidden Love in the Army" was filmed in the last year of the 20th...

Amir 2022-01-19 08:02:12

* Originally posted at https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7097-beau-travail-a-cinema-of-sensation

* Original author Girish Shambu

Darien 2022-04-19 09:02:44

Denis used the image form of artistic photography + dance to deal with a proposition similar to "Full Metal Jacket". A French East African Legion without an enemy finally turned itself into an enemy. Is it just love or the distorted desire to win between people under the legion system? In particular, Denis Lavant's unsmiling lieutenant was consistent in his punitive measures against black soldiers who slipped away to attend a local prayer service on guard. The only question that is more ambiguous is whether it is the problem of the DL character or the inherent absurdity of the Overseas Legion itself, which becomes even more ambiguous in the shaping of the protagonist and the black girlfriend. This is a very good execution of the de-event and even counter-narrative ideas, such as the red water surface of the crash and the wreckage. The funeral ceremony perfectly avoids the only event in the whole film, and a lot of daily training and laundry ironing are used as the backbone of the film by the opera. to form the absurdity of high-form empty content. Many fake eyeliner clips are humorous, but at the same time, the topless male soldiers of the locals who are backgrounded in the film become their multiple staring backlash. The last solo dance and Liao Fan Bai Riyan

Dorthy 2022-04-19 09:02:44

The freedom of the camera lens is quite shocking; the envy and fascination with the young masculinity of the recruits in the colony implies the recollection of their own past; and the film starts from the memory of the superior, and becomes a double-sided mirror; coupled with the isolation The environment and the particularity of the army can be said to be perfect. Although it forms a rich mirror relationship, it is also a bit over-designed, like the design that Coetzee will do. The "Out of Body" perspective is especially useful in such films. The fresher one is "Taekwondo", and the more storytelling is "American Beauty"; why does the "Out of Body" perspective always have amazing effects in gay movies? I think one is from the gaze of the hidden desire to hide and shame, and the other is because all gays split themselves into two perspectives from the moment they realize their identity, one is for pretending to live or perform; the other is for Look at the previous self, and judge and adjust the relationship with others at any time; while other sexual minorities will split more perspectives, so it is still suitable for Gay.