Tag: Beau Travail

• January 30, 2023

  Episode 38 – Sight and Sound 2022

  On this episode of Cinema Dual, Jon and Chris talk about a pair of movies from the 2022 Sight and Sound Poll.
• January 25, 2023

  Lost in the Mail: Dan’s 2022 Sight And Sound Ballot

  Coming up with a Sight and Sound ballot, even one that didn’t get submitted to the actual magazine, presents unique challenges. The only criteria put forth by the venerable magazine is to vote for the greatest films of all time, leaving voters free to interpret that. It opens things up to a wide set of…
• December 6, 2022

  The Films of Claire Denis: Beau Travail (1999)

  Tanks lie unattended near the foot of a mountain or a hill, with possibly empty oil drums next to them. Nameless people sit crowded in a train going through a desert. Women dance in a club hoping to attract the attention of French Foreign Legion soldiers. Those same soldiers, now caked in sand and dust,…