Pour une narration plastique: Beau travail de Claire Denis
For another kind of narration: Beau travail by Claire Denis
Author(s): Marion delecroix, Caroline San MartinSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Music, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Art, History of Art, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: French cinema; Claire Denis; narration; painting; dance;
Summary/Abstract: Beau travail by Claire Denis (1999) is a free adaptation of Billy Budd by Herman Melville. It deals with the story of a warrant officer who can’t stand the arrival of a new legionnaire. In order to direct certain scenes, the director worked with the choreographer Bernardo Montet. Through dance, the composition of the images of Beau Travail links with other forms of arts, in particular painting, because Claire Denis work relies on another kind of narration, a plastic one.
Journal: Cahiers ERTA
- Issue Year: 2015
- Issue No: 8
- Page Range: 165-176
- Page Count: 12
- Language: French
