{"product_id":"beau-travail-bfi-film-classics","title":"Beau Travail","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeau Travail\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) is Claire Denis' bold, sensuous masterpiece. Loosely based on Herman Melville's \u003ci\u003eBilly Budd, Sailor\u003c\/i\u003e (1924)\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e the film explores the complexities of desire, identity, and power within an all-male group of French Foreign Legionnaires stationed at a coastal outpost in the former colony of Djibouti, in East Africa.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The film cemented Denis' position as a leading auteur and visual poet. In this book, Corinn Columpar positions the film as a cinematic bid for freedom. She examines its formal innovations - particularly the use of the gaze, voice, and movement - to explain how Denis produces exhilarating possibilities narratively, affectively, and ideologically, while also situating the film within the histories of art cinema and postcolonial filmmaking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Beau Travail BFI Film Classics","offer_id":46179204890821,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-83902-713-0.jpg?v=1778026234","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/beau-travail-bfi-film-classics","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}