DVD & Blu-ray: BEAU TRAVAIL (1999) - Criterion Collection

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Product Description: With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, Claire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of our time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant (Denis Lavant) sows the seeds of his own ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit (Grégoire Colin) plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten.

Denis and cinematographer Agnès Godard fold military and masculine codes of honor, colonialism’s legacy, destructive jealousy, and repressed desire into shimmering, hypnotic images that ultimately explode in one of the most startling and unforgettable endings in all of modern cinema.

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Director: Claire Denis

Starring: Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin

Genre: Drama, War

Runtime: 92 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: French

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: September 15, 2020

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DVD - Criterion Collection

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Codec: MPEG-2
Resolution: 480i
Aspect Ratio: 1.67:1
Encoding Format: 16:9
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.67:1
Region: Region A/1

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DVD: Dolby Digital 2.0
Blu-ray: LPCM 2.0

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DVD: English

Blu-ray: English

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New conversation between Denis and filmmaker Barry Jenkins
New selected scene commentary with Godard
New interviews with actors Denis Lavant and Grégoire Colin
New video essay by film scholar Judith Mayne
PLUS: An essay by critic Girish Shambu
NEW 4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM, supervised by director of photography Agnès Godard and approved by director Claire Denis, with uncompressed stereo soundtrack