Named the seventh greatest film of all time in the 2022 Sight and Sound poll, Claire Denis’ Beau Travail is an impressionist study of the tragic interrelations of masculine repression, queer desire and colonial violence. Following the memories of a French Foreign Legion officer’s time in Djibouti, Denis’ celebrated sensual, abstract style finds its fullest expression here, surely one of the most essential arthouse films ever made. Screening for the first time in a decade in Adelaide.
