Special
Cinessentials

Beau Travail

Starting
t.b.a.
25th Anniversary Screening - Original version with English subtitles
Poster
Beau Travail Poster (Source: themoviedb.org)
Director
Claire Denis
Cast
Denis Lavant (Galoup), Michel Subor (Commander Bruno Forestier), Grégoire Colin (Gilles Sentain), Richard Courcet (Legionnaire), Nicolas Duvauchelle (Legionnaire), Adiatou Massudi (Legionnaire), Mickael Ravovski (Legionnaire), Dan Herzberg (Legionnaire), Giuseppe Molino (Legionnaire)
Plot Outline

Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.

Genre
Drama
Runtime
92 minutes
Production country
FR
Released
1999