Beau Travail | Trailer

[@thehorsebox1203]

I'm not a dance person, i've never been. But the ending of this movie just injects energy straight into my body and makes me whant to dance forever. I love you Claire.

[@hasanmemes9683]

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[@aHarshPundit]

Inimitably original piece of art. Just impossible to categorize. One of the purest cinematic masterpieces of all time. Lavant is Lava!

[@hasanmemes9683]

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[@Lisa-qt4hh]

This film is brilliant, but I must say this trailer is as well!

[@scum1979]

One of the best films I've ever seen

[@cj3126]

Dante, same. Saw at theater & it is still in top 3 in 2021

[@conantyler388]

This movie is not that great

[@Luboman411]

I just watched "Beach Rats", a 2017 U.S. film inspired by "Beau Travail." I was spellbound by how "Beach Rats" just dug itself deep into the erotic point of view of one person, a confused 19-year-old from working-class Brooklyn. Apparently "Beau Travail" is even better at this. Must watch!

[@Salman-Zaki]

Well said! Beach Rats is a good film, I liked it too. But Beau Travail is a masterpiece.

[@dasneonlicht]

I just saw Beau Travail and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Thanks for reminding me I saw Beach Rats when it came out in theaters -- I liked it at the time but kind of forgot about it until now. Will keep the fun fact you shared in mind the next time I see it. Thanks.

[@Salman-Zaki]

@@neematm8266 No, Beau Travail is very subtle.

[@cj3126]

@@neematm8266 It's hard to know the difference. I try to take at face value. Knowing so many in military it seems they are all gay if u are a civilian* but there is just a closeness that is inevitable so they are quite fluid w their bodies. Many are straight and jealousies occur. Only the director knows if he was gay. I never saw him with a man.

[@sufyanlowel4631]

both movies are garbage

[@phillipjones8099]

PS There's a boot camp basic training song in the United States armed services, one of the lines of which echoes the same as sentiment. The line is the last line in the song and the only lyrics which I remember and goes something like ... Lay my piece across my chest, And tell my girl I did my best. I think that sentiments among soldiers are universal across countries and cultures, time and space. My father was a veteran of the Second World War. He built mostly military models as a hobby, but he could have been a professional modeler in museum replicas or filmmaking. There was a poem featured in a modeler magazine or military nostalgia. He pinned the page with the poem on the garage wall where his modeling workshop was. I remember that poem because the words and verses really stuck in both my heart and mind. The poem is short and goes something like " On the field of battle They met as enemies fated. In death They were joined as comrades mated." That fatality and finality of war, too, is universal in the human condition. - Phillip Jones

[@phillipjones8099]

I remembered the full training camp song now which a friend of a friend, who was a navy recruit sounded off one afternoon, maybe over thirty years ago. The full song is ... "If I die in the combat zone, Take my body and ship it home. Lay my piece across my chest, And tell my girl I did my best." Thanks for the thumbs up! Phillip Jones

[@phillipjones8099]

PS: Watch Underfire: the untold story of pfc tony vaccaro on Amazon Prime Video. Thanks, Phillip.

[@phillipjones8099]

PS: The poem was a kind of caption for a photograph of two crossed rifles stuck barrel down in the sand with a British Tommy's helmet placed on one rifle butt and a German Wehrmacht helmet perched on the other rifle butt, a very passionate and powerful image. One picture is worth a thousand words. Thanks again, Phillip Jones

[@RS-un9hx]

You can only appreciate this movie if you've been in the military and lived in a foreign country. I can't explain it to someone who hasn't experienced it yet. I wish I knew about the FFL when I was young. I would have joined. However, there's only a few in elite forces. The FFL has no problem sending you back home packing if you can't pass the entrance exam/drills. Au revoir!

[@peterc.potswald6292]

this film sits comfortably in my letterboxd top four between terminator 2 and gremlins 2

[@pablopaul8539]

Great film.

[@BillyOGrady]

this movie is amazing!!!

[@maewing1105]

I was impressed

[@46metube]

Galoup dances like a man breaking out - back into himself. The strictures of military discipline thrown off. Possessed by a past of suppression and conformity, that finally broke him. Time's frame - like a magician's sleight of hand, is shuffled by Denis to create disorientation. The balance of sensing is never stable. Half naked young men. Sun tanned and handsome as angels. Yet khaki green in military servitude. The uniformity of shaved heads: 'we are all the same.' One identity. These lost lads at sea. These 'boys.' From fractured beginnings, waifs and strays. The Foreign Legion is Home. Brothers in arms, possibly lovers too. They perform intimate routines of exercise like a dance troupe - bonding themselves ever tighter. Their movement often violent. Angular. They look like corpses in brown ash, when they are spent. Is Claire Denis holding my attention only to the surface of things - of landscape and human? Why can I not peer beneath the surface? Denis orchestrates her canvas with moving sculpture. Galoup is a good man with petty irrational jealousies. Galoup conspires in his journal, unable to control his paranoia. Perhaps it's sexual desire too? Sometimes visually, there is a perfect postcard - freeze frame it, for a still life: Denis has an artist's eye for composition. I see a lot of naked skin close up. Locals look on bemused? A Martian landscape, salt burned. The Legionaries run drill and manoeuvre - in what seems to be a meaningless display of physical exertion. Their prowess is impotent? There is a formal male eroticism: ironing shirts in unison - they all look so sweet, like mummy's boys. The gentle curve of the female form performed with sedate testosterone. An island of lost men. A French penal colony? And Forestier is Father to these lost souls. He is distant yet omnipresent. And Galoup feels 'small' in his company. Denis's camera 'peers in' and frames. She creates a calming lyricism when these 'men' are relaxing. Galoup looks out of sorts, comical perhaps in his Kepi. Does he belong anywhere at all? Perhaps in a circus or cartoon? The environment is stunning. Bleak, baked hard motifs, emblematic of macho posturing, but this armour is soft flesh. They will bleed-out on a distant battlefield, calling & crying. To the indigenous people, it is home: the stark salt flats & burnt mountains. The heat of tedium and repetition are a corner stone of breaking men into 'one-whole.' Are the women dancing in a mirror or behind wire? There is a relationship for Galoup, but it appears juvenile, unconsummated? The men are reflections of each other: Beautiful, indestructible, eternal: Saint Sebastian for sacrifice. Denis gets in close to their skin and muscle. Does she want me to smell their odour? It is subversive: bicep and thigh. Underarm hair. She wants me to sniff? And I am uncomfortable feeling that. I am not invited to know these young men. Is that because they are mere weapons? They are The Republic. Claire Denis's non-linear narrative is gentle. I am washed back & to, from Djibouti to grey normalities of Marseilles - it feels almost structureless, a collage of audio & visual. There is a dreamy spatiality: The ability to be close to, and also removed. The colours are often bleached. Even the pale blue sea looks unwelcoming. There are striking contrasts between humans and landscape - Denis's staging is theatric. These young men are trapped in a deserted timeframe. Their quirky movements must look odd to passers-by. Perhaps they are alien beings? And the locals dressed in beautiful relaxed colours, languid as they move and observe, are normal. There is a strange opera of humanity, reflected by Britten's Billy Budd. It swells up into the proceedings now and again, and initially it felt ill-conceived. I did not care for any of these men - they are desensitised. Even Sentain. Denis does not let me in emotionally: it is the atmosphere she creates, that is enigmatic & alluring. Often the light between night and day, is sensual. Theirs is a private world, yet anyone could be someone else. This anonymity erases personality: Your past is not questioned. Just do as you are told: abide by the rules. Galoup is dancing finally. All in black. He should be happy? Something has died. Something should mean something to him, as he flips and flops in his new realm. He experiments with his free limbs. He windmills and jumps, as Denis's camera observes - so much of this film is observing. I get the feeling he is unknown to himself. He is alone, internally dancing. Perhaps he always was alone - and always will be? Is Beau Travail a masterpiece? Who knows? How do you know when you say it is? For me though, it is a great work of art.

[@averagefemale6757]

This is so long 😂

[@RaySquirrel]

I just watched Beau Travail and I wish I saw the movie you did. Or should I say I saw brief glimpses of the film you describe, buried underneath suffocating tedium. I don’t mind a leisurely paced film, as long as the payoff is worth the concentration. This one just wasn’t. I’ve read a lot of people discussing the implications of this shot or that in the film. But unless the film gives you a hint of what it is going for you might as well be divining chicken bones.

[@ghibsoo]

beautiful comment

[@phillipjones8099]

PS I just found and listened to an English translation and the lyrics aren't the same. I saw the film on Turner Classic Movies and the film version that I saw on TCM had English subtitles. One line in the song is about a soldier telling a comrade that if he dies in battle, to tell his sweetheart Jeanne that he loved her or some sentiment to that effect. There's no line in the song No Regrets like the line in the song which the french soldiers sing at the beginning of Beau Traivail. So, if anyone knows what the title of the song in the film is, please reply. The song has haunted me ever sincerely I heard it in the film and I can't get the tune or that line in the song out of my head. I'm sure that every soldier who has a sweetheart he left behind him must feel that way. It's got to be one of the saddest feelings in the world. I hope someone knows the answer. It'll help me sleep better at night. Again, thank you, Phillip

[@cj3126]

Phil, u are one romantic man. I know so many cold that forget about that loved one back home. It depends on the mission & man.

[@phillipjones8099]

@@cj3126 Dear Sara, Yes, it does depend on the mission and the man, and the woman back home who's worth leaving home for to come back to. I'm a man with a mission to find someone who feels the same way I do about a mission and another human being. If that's the way you feel, then write me back. Thank you for writing and have a good evening, Phillip!

[@SoCalFreelance]

Will a 4K blu-ray be available?

[@x7lucian7x]

Where can I watch from europe ?

[@phillipjones8099]

What is the title and lyrics of the song which the french foreign legionnaires sing at the beginning of the film Beau Traivail? Could the song be I Have No Regrets? I've been listening to a recording of No Regrets on KZbin and that song sounds like it's the song which the french legionnaires were singing. No Regrets has the same poignancy and bittersweet sentiment as the song in the film. I'd like to know for sure, if anyone knows and will write to me in response to my comments and questions. I'd also like to know what the lyrics in English are. Thank you to whomever will help me, Phillip Jones.

[@hugogo.678]

The song begins with "Sous le soleil brûlant d'Afrique, Cochinchine, Madagascar". I don't know what the title is exactly but if you copy and paste this on youtube you can find it easily !! :)

[@phillipjones8099]

@@hugogo.678 Merci Boucoup! I waited for an answer for about two years. I knew someone would have the answer. I'd almost forgotten. I wish that I could answer your reply entirely in French, speaking of which, could the line of the song into English, please. I could enter the line onto Google and I might get the lyrics of the entire song along with the title. Just from a rough look at the line, this French Foreign Legion song could be related to a German naval song entitled Stranded in Madagascar about the plight and perils of common sailors which are eternal and universal for sll practical intents and purposes. Let me hear from you again. I'd like to know what you think. Again thanks, Phillip!

[@phillipjones8099]

@@hugogo.678 PS I can tell what the line says in English. The line is saying, "The Sun is bright in Africa, ..." I know more French than I thought I did! The song is in the form of a letter to the legionnaire's sweetheart Jeanne. He's telling how the weather is and where he's stationed in Madagascar. Never heard of the place but I'm going to find out. Well thank you. You got me using my noodle and my head for something besides a hat rack. I'll put that line into Google and see what I get. Thanks so much for your help. My regards, Phillip!

[@phillipjones8099]

@@hugogo.678 PS Actually, brullant means brutal I think. That's better. "The Sun is brutal in Madagascar." It's much the same sense as the Turkish folk song Iste Hendek which means in English, The Sun is Hot. Thanks, Phillip!

[@hugogo.678]

@@phillipjones8099 Here is what I found : "Sous le soleil brûlant d’Afrique (Under the burning sun of Africa) is the regimental song of the 13th Foreign Legion Demi-Brigade (13e DBLE), the last of the French demi-brigades (half-brigade). The song was composed by Paul Nod in 1945, shortly after the end of WWII in Europe, to the tune of a Nazi Germany panzer division march. The arrangement was made by Mr. Semmler-Collery, the then head of the 13e DBLE’s Music Band". And this are the lyrics in french: "Sous le soleil brûlant d’Afrique Cochinchine, Madagascar Une phalange magnifique A fait flotter nos étendards. Sa devise Honneur et Vaillance Forme des soldats valeureux Son drapeau, celui de la France Est un emblème des plus glorieux" In English it should be something like this: "Under the burning sun of Africa, Cochinchina, Madagascar, A magnificent phalanx Has flown our banners. Its motto, Honor and Valor, Forms valiant soldiers. Its flag, that of France, Is a most glorious emblem" "brûlant" means "burning hot", like "Be careful, that cup is brûlante !" Hope this helps !! :)

[@KhaldyFathy]

chef d'oeuvre

[@volatilesky]

Yet another hour and a half of my life I'll never get back.

[@pandorasboxpictures]

❤

[@tuhinsikdar7228]

Where I can watch this online??

[@stelladbanana7228]

yts.mx/movies/beau-travail-1999 u can download this

[@CRM-114]

You want it? Buy it.

[@matthewquigless7381]

Saw it twice to confirm it’s not sex

[@AnhTuPhucDerrickHoangCanada]

Veterans foreign legion

[@genosthegreat7870]

I didn't understand anything in this movie

[@tan9633]

because you are not gay.

[@kiwiintheskywithdiamonds7611]

@@tan9633 perhaps he is

[@Goodmorning1221-]

They like men.

[@mailkscott4433]

Boring

[@angelicaveitch8526]

Completely mystified why people think this is a good movie

[@Bandog23]

Art i guess

[@cj3126]

All of you going on about it being lgbt please know army, marines, other armed services have watched this film through a different lens then you.

[@KBamba-rk3fb]

The movie is fruity as hell don't even lie 🥱

[@cj3126]

@@KBamba-rk3fb Professors have studied this & to call a masterpiece fruity means u are too into gay erotica & see it often. Everyone has their own lens for art. Regardless of it's intent don't minimize to "fruity."

[@meatdivine]

@@cj3126 im cishet and acknowledge this film is fruity af, theres no denying

[@cj3126]

@@meatdivine I don't know cishet word? I do know in US, Army Rangers, Special forces & other branches didn't see it fruity. I'm not blind how one could but one should not call a masterpiece fruity.

[@meatdivine]

@@cj3126 its not that deep, its fruity

[@sufyanlowel4631]

so outdated and pointless. waste of time.

[@DavidBaker-cx1ni]

Why bother commenting? Skiddoo!

[@sufyanlowel4631]

@@DavidBaker-cx1ni why bother commenting? Skiddoo!