{"product_id":"beau-travail","title":"Beau travail","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781839027130\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (UK)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2026\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\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\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.","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41837350682757,"sku":"PR430703","price":34.4,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TT6MZ7NAM325.jpg?v=1788135395","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/beau-travail","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}