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Beau Travail Beau Travail poster.jpg Theatrical release poster
Directed by Claire Denis Produced by Patrick Grandperret Written
by Claire Denis Starring Denis Lavant Michel Subor Music by
Charles Henri de Pierrefeu Cinematography Agnès Godard Edited by
Nelly Quettier Distributed by Pyramide Distribution Release
dates 1999 Running time 90 minutes Country France Language
French, Italian, Russian  Beau Travail (pronounced: [bo
tʁa.vaj], French for "good work") is a 1999 French movie
directed by Claire Denis that is loosely based on Herman
Melville's 1888 novella Billy Budd. The movie is set 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.  Plot
summary[edit]  Back in France, master sergeant Galoup (Denis
Lavant) remembers the time in the desert, where he led his men
under the comm