Beau Travail
- 1999
- 1h 32min
- Unrated
Original title: Beau travail
Drama, War
- Claire Denis
- Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Herman Melville
- La Sept-Arte, Pathé Télévision, S.M. Films
- Jérôme Minet
- Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Adiatou Massudi, Mickael Rakovski, Dan Herzberg, Giuseppe Molino, Gianfranco Poddighe
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Beau Travail (pronounced, French for "good work") is a 1999 French film directed by Claire Denis, who co-wrote the screenplay alongside Jean-Pol Fargeau, an adaptation of Billy Budd by Herman Melville. The story, is set in Djibouti, where the protagonists are soldiers in the French Foreign Legion. Parts of the soundtrack of the movie are from Benjamin Britten's 1951 opera based on the novella.