This screening is in conjunction with project-based contemporary art gallery Tureen for their current exhibit, Danny McDonald & Kyle Thurman: Made Up Men, up until May 18th, 2024.
Considered by many to be Claire Denis’ masterpiece, BEAU TRAVAIL sets Herman Melville’s classic novella Billy Budd in a distinctly modern milieu, telling a universal tale of jealousy while mining the intricate details of the French Foreign Legion’s presence in the Gulf of Djibouti. The journey begins backward, as former Foreign Legion officer Galoup (Denis Lavant) longingly recalls his days as a leader of men. As we soon discover, his downfall involves a homoerotic jealousy so destructive that the lives it touches will never be the same.
Claire Denis, France, 1999, 90 min