Beau travail

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Maverick C @MaverickCinema Feb 15 A definite recommendation for any independent cinema lover. Denis Lavant is electric as always, and just wait for that ending...... See more Richard W @rdwoolf Sep 4 Nothing happens in this film. I thought something was going to happen in the plot…but no. Nothing except what easily could have happened in the first 15 minutes. This should have been a short film. A very short film. In, fact, maybe a 30-second commercial for Calvin Klein green pants. I recommend only watching it if you’re very into watching young men in the French Foreign Legion, stretching, doing calisthenics, hitting the obstacle course, and doing very mundane things, like ironing shirts and shoveling dirt (well, mostly rocks). [But I cannot recommend it.] See more Rucas T @RT91467003 Aug 10 You put a band of so called soldiers, ask them to do exercises, wash clothes, eat, while you film them and then join all these scenes and call it a movie... There's no plot (apart from the very end, 2-3 minutes). The movie is so slow I had to put it in 2x and even then it looked slow. Dialogues are rubbish. Is there a weird movie thing of giving high marks to Denis Lavant crap movies of the passing of the century? See more Pierre B @RT98674145 Jul 22 This is the first time I've felt compelled to write a review after seeing a rapid-fire succession of people saying it's a waste of time and boring. That is, in fact, not wrong because it's how they felt and art is subjective. However, I love this movie. It's gorgeous both in showing Djibouti, but also in sound design. It sounds like an ASMR video in that you don't even need to know the plot. The story also presents the view of one character, and you are never told Galoup's motivations in his disdain. Just that he doesn't like a legionnaire. The final scene can help explain why, and I kind of had the feeling why about halfway through. Anyways, if you like Terence Malick or slow cinema or movies in which they don't give you every plot point and you can kind of meditate or just enjoy the scenery then I think it's a must-see movie and one of the greats. Not for everyone, and that's ok. See more John S @RT04170102 09/26/2024 Awful acting, and no soundtrack for most of the film. There is one event that happens during the entire film and it is not dramatised in the slightest (with the least well acted punch I have ever seen in my life), it then turns out that the character does not even die and will be perfectly ok, so essentially, nothing happens. There was no differentiating factor between the TWO MAIN characters for the first hour of the film and only knew about them for the last part. The other characters are not even named… The director, Claire Denis, has attempted to be ‘quirky’ and ‘unique’ with this horrific attempt at a film and has failed miserably. In trying to be different from other films, she has utterly bored all the viewers and completely wasted an hour and a half of everybody’s life that has watched this film. See more Otto H @RT46333480 09/26/2024 What a waste of my time. I would rather procreate with a dog than rewatch this film. Absolutely atrocious. An offence to cinematography. Not a single scene gave me pleasure, the acting was dry, and honestly i never want to see Galoup again or hear his name. I hate him. I hated the film. Never watch this film. See more Read all reviews

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