{"product_id":"beau-travail","title":"Beau travail","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeau Travail\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) is Claire Denis' bold, sensuous masterpiece. Loosely based on Herman Melville’s \u003ci\u003eBilly Budd, Sailor \u003c\/i\u003e(1924)\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ethe film explores the complexities of desire, identity, and power within an all-male group of French Foreign Legionnaires stationed at a coastal outpost in the former colony of Djibouti, in East Africa. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe film cemented Denis' position as a leading auteur and visual poet. In this book, Corinn Columpar positions the film as a cinematic bid for freedom. She examines its formal innovations - particularly the use of the gaze, voice, and movement - to explain how Denis produces exhilarating possibilities narratively, affectively, and ideologically, while also situating the film within the histories of art cinema and postcolonial filmmaking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56244023558488,"sku":"9781839027130","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781839027130.jpg?v=1779516951","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/beau-travail","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}