BP322 Beau Travail

BP322 Beau Travail

From The Best Pick movie podcast by Film fans John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

September 24, 2025 · 1h 33m · Episode 322

About this episode

The episode discusses the film Beau Travail, exploring its themes and context.

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky Episode 322: Beau Travail Released 24 September 2025 For this episode, we watched Claire Denis's 1999 story of three men in the French Foreign Legion, drawn in part from Herman Melville's unfinished novella Billy Budd . The film stars Denis Lavant, Michel Subor and Grégoire Colin and Denis also wrote the script along with Jean-Pol Fargeau. It has an 87% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and it's at number seven in the 2022 Sight & Sound poll. We also feature an exclusive clip from Tom's new podcast All British Comedy Explained . Check it out here. https://podfollow.com/all-british-comedy-explained Next time we will be discussing 2001: A Space Odyssey . If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode, you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk , or Amazon.com , or you can stream it via Apple TV+ (UK) or Apple TV+ (USA) . Blood Shine https://mubi.com/en/gb/films/blood-shine The One I Love https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/70299863 https://www.earwolf.com/episode/the-snowman-live-w-erin-gibson-bryan-safi/ BEST PICK the book is available now from all the usual places, and the paperback is out now. From the publisher…

People in this episode

Hosts: John Dorney, Jessica Regan, Tom Salinsky

Topics covered

  • film analysis
  • French Foreign Legion
  • adaptations
  • cinema history
  • podcast promotion

Keywords

  • Beau Travail
  • Claire Denis
  • French Foreign Legion
  • film review
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Rotten Tomatoes, Sight & Sound, All British Comedy Explained, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Apple TV+, Earwolf, Rowman, Waterstones, Barnes & Noble

Books & works: Beau Travail, Billy Budd, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blood Shine, The One I Love, BEST PICK

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