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Dominican Rep. Good Work
- Original title
- Beau travail (Good Work)
- Year
- 1999
- Running time
- 90 min.
- Country
France- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production France-Italy-Russia;
- Genre
- Drama | Army. Psychological Drama
- Movie Groups
- Herman Melville Adaptations
- Synopsis
- In the east African enclave of Djibouti, the men of a small French Foreign Legion outpost spend their days practicing military drills, exercising and baking in the desert sun. Barely older than his soldiers, Sergeant Galoup seems to be the perfect Legionnaire: a brooding loner who runs his troop like a well-oiled machine -- that is until Sentain, a new recruit, arrives and threatens to upset the delicate balance of his world.
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- Awards
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2000: César Awards: Best Cinematography2000: British Independent Film Awards (BIFA): Nom. Best Int. Ind. Film - Foreign Lan.2000: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film2000: Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Best Cinematography2000: European Film Awards (EFA): nominated to Best Cinematography.2000: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): Best Cinematography.
- Critics' reviews
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"Unique and unforgettable."
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"You may not like 'Beau Travail' - which is, after all, a quintessential "critic's film" - but I think you'll have to admit it's been almost perfectly executed."
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"A movie so tactile in its cinematography, inventive in its camera placement, and sensuous in its editing that the purposefully oblique and languid narrative is all but eclipsed."
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"A stunning work of beauty, mystery, contemplation, and grit -- and like sands through the desert hourglass, these are the days of our lives."
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"A ruggedly beautiful landscape of desert and sea provides a dramatic setting for a psychological drama told with the utmost rigor--and unabashed eroticism."
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