Beau travail
By: une coproduction La Sept ARTE, Tanaïs Com, SM Films ; produit par Jérôme Minet et Patrick Grandperret ; avec la participation du Centre National de la Cinématographie ; scénario, Jean-Pol Fargeau et Claire Denis ; un film de Claire Denis
Contributors: Godard, Agnès, cinematographer; Quettier, Nelly, editor; Tzur, Eran, composer; Pierrefeu, Charles Henri de, composer; Lavant, Denis, 1961- actor; Colin, Grégoire, actor; Subor, Michel, 1935- actor; Courcet, Richard, actor; Melville, Herman, 1819-1891; Sept/Arte (Firm); Tanaïs Productions (Firm); S.M. Films (Firm); Centre national de la cinématographie (France); New Yorker Video (Firm)
Series: International cinema; International cinema
Publisher: Distributed by New Yorker Video
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: fre
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Drama; Garrisons; France. Armée. Légion étrangère; Soldiers; France; Armed Forces; Film adaptations; History
Other titles: Good Work
Description: Men in the French Foreign Legion, escaping some personal or legal entanglement, can leave their lives behind and take on a new identity. In an outpost in Djibouti, the men of the Legion yield to the rigid discipline and unvarying routine of life within it. When new recruit Sentain saves the life of a fellow soldier, brooding taskmaster Sgt. Galoup sets out to destroy him. The film observes how power functions among men, and considers the consequences of remaining a stranger, even as the Legionnaires must always remain strangers.
Notes: Based on Herman Melville's novel, Billy Budd.

Originally produced as a French motion picture in 1999.

Special features: Theatrical trailer (2 min.); New Yorker films [trailer menu, text feature].

Cinematography by Agnès Godard ; editor, Nelly Quettier ; music, Eran Tzur and Charles Henri de Pierrefeu.

Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Richard Courcet.

DVD; NTSC, letterboxed presentation, 16:9.

In French with optional English subtitles.
Table of contents: title: Opening credits; title: Galoup's story; title: The routine; title: Triumphant march; title: A brave soldier; title: A new camp; title: Burning sun; title: Forestier's return; title: Face off; title: Final destruction; title: Galoup's last dance; title: End credits.