his Thursday at the HUBB...BEAU TRAVAIL
Beau Travail ("Good Work") is a 1999 French movie directed by Claire Denis that is loosely based on Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd. She has set the movie in Djibouti, where the protagonists are soldiers in the French Foreign Legion. Parts of the soundtrack of the movie are from Benjamin Britten's opera based on the novella. Topped the Village Voice's Best Film list in 2002.
92 minutes
in French with English Subtitles
critics say...The film is "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." - J. Hoberman of the Village Voice
"An imaginative drama about the dire effects of envy, that vicious emotion that spreads pain and agony everywhere it reaches." - Spirituality and Practice
Thursday at the HUBB Restaurant, Stung Sangke Hotel, National Road 5
Starts at 7:30 pm
Food and drinks available before and during
**Next week: No film - Happy Water Festival!**
P.S. Apologies for the last-minute cancellation last week - won't happen again!
Beau Travail ("Good Work") is a 1999 French movie directed by Claire Denis that is loosely based on Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd. She has set the movie in Djibouti, where the protagonists are soldiers in the French Foreign Legion. Parts of the soundtrack of the movie are from Benjamin Britten's opera based on the novella. Topped the Village Voice's Best Film list in 2002.
92 minutes
in French with English Subtitles
critics say...The film is "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." - J. Hoberman of the Village Voice
"An imaginative drama about the dire effects of envy, that vicious emotion that spreads pain and agony everywhere it reaches." - Spirituality and Practice
Thursday at the HUBB Restaurant, Stung Sangke Hotel, National Road 5
Starts at 7:30 pm
Food and drinks available before and during
**Next week: No film - Happy Water Festival!**
P.S. Apologies for the last-minute cancellation last week - won't happen again!
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