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DESCRIPTION:The Cosford Cinema is proud to present a screening series of th
 e top 10 films of the 2022 Sight & Sound Top 100 Poll: The Greatest Films 
 of All Time.\n\n \n\nLaunched in 1952 and conducted every 10 years since\,
  the poll includes filmmakers\, critics and journalists from around the wo
 rld. The results are published in Sight & Sound\, a monthly film magazine 
 published by the British Film Institute.\n\n \n\nBEAU TRAVAIL | YEAR: 1999
  | DIRECTOR: Claire Denis | 4K DCP projection | RUNNING TIME: 92 minutes |
  RATED: Unrated (adult themes) | In French with English subtitles\n\n \n\n
 With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville’s "Billy Budd\," Cl
 aire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poet
 s of our time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Dji
 bouti\, a French Foreign Legion sergeant (Denis Lavant) sows the seeds of 
 his own ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit (Grégoire Col
 in) plays out to the thunderous\, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten.\n\
 n \n\nDenis and cinematographer Agnès Godard fold military and masculine 
 codes of honor\, colonialism’s legacy\, destructive jealousy\, and repre
 ssed desire into shimmering\, hypnotic images that ultimately explode in o
 ne of the most startling and unforgettable endings in all of modern cinema
 .\n\n \n\n \n\n"Beau Travail" took seventh place in the Sight & Sound poll
 . Click here to see listings for the other movies in the series. Admission
  is $5 per film or $40 for a series pass. Students with Cane card use code
  UMSTUDENT at checkout for free admission. \n\n \n\n"Despite being adapted
  from a 19th-century novella\, 'Beau Travail' is an incredibly cinematic w
 ork that explores questions of memory\, identity\, and sexuality\, all thr
 ough the language of the visual image. Directed by Claire Denis\, the Fren
 ch filmmaker whose authorial style spans numerous genres\, 'Beau Travail' 
 is arguably her most significant film in terms of her status as an auteur.
 \n\n \n\n"Set in the ex-French colony of Djibouti\, 'Beau Travail' shares 
 similar themes to Denis’ early work\; namely\, the conflict of post-colo
 nial French identity and the relationship between the body and the land. H
 owever\, in Beau Travail these themes are woven into the very fabric of th
 e film’s stylistic and narrative construction\, resulting in a much more
  experimental and visceral approach to these recurrent reflections and con
 cerns. The film speaks through its images\, expressing those emotions that
  are too difficult to convey through words alone." -- Harrison Hughes\, Fi
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LOCATION:Bill Cosford Cinema\, Dooly Memorial 225
SUMMARY:THE SIGHT & SOUND TOP TEN: "BEAU TRAVAIL" (1999)
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