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7 April, 2023

Screening: Beau Travail, Introduced by Rosalind Galt

Screening: Beau Travail, Introduced by Rosalind Galt
7 April, 2023

On 9 April the screening will be introduced by Professor Rosalind Galt.

Number 7 in The Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2022, Claire Denis ravishing masterpiece firmly established herself as one of the great auteurs 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 honour, colonialism’s legacy, destructive jealousy, and repressed desire into shimmering, hypnotic images that ultimately explode in one of the most startling and unforgettable endings in all of modern cinema.

WHERE: The Garden Cinema London
WHEN: 9th April 2023
TICKETS: Booking Link

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