Ohjaus Claire Denis
Pääosissa Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin
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Claire Denis’s beguiling, visually stunning tone poem on masculinity, jealousy, and repression
Newly restored and now on Blu-ray
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
Director-Approved Special Edition Feature
New 4K digital restoration
New conversation between Denis and filmmaker Barry Jenkins
New selected scene commentary with Agnès Godard
New interviews with actors Denis Lavant and Grégoire Colin
New video essay by film scholar Judith Mayne
And more
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