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.
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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TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Denis dispenses with most of Melville's hefty Christian symbolism in favor of the story's other great theme -- repressed homoerotic desire.
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New York PostJonathan Foreman
New York PostJonathan Foreman
So minimalist in characterization and dialogue that the plot all but evaporates -- and so does any dramatic power.