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Chris and Jesse discuss the artistic elements of Claire Denis' film Beau Travail.

Chris and Jesse watch one of Chris' favorite films: Claire Denis' 1999 masterpiece Beau Travail, starring Denis Lavant and Colin Gregoire. The film is plot-light but significance-heavy, and the lads agree that it is beautiful and poetic and uncondescending. Can the power of imagery, sound, and implicated action balance a plot that sheds many of our usual expectations around how action unfolds in books and film?

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