Beau Travail

Beau Travail
Theatrical release poster
Directed byClaire Denis
Screenplay byClaire Denis
Jean-Pol Fargeau
Based onBilly Budd
by Herman Melville
Produced byPatrick Grandperret
StarringDenis Lavant
Michel Subor
CinematographyAgnès Godard
Edited byNelly Quettier
Music byBenjamin Britten
Charles Henri de Pierrefeu
Distributed byPyramide Distribution
Release dates
  • 4 September 1999 (1999-09-04) (Venice)
  • 3 May 2000 (2000-05-03) (France)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguagesFrench
Italian
Russian
Box office$570,000[1]

Beau Travail (pronounced [bo tʁa.vaj], French for "good work") is a 1999 French film directed by Claire Denis that is based on Herman Melville's 1888 novella Billy Budd. The story 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 1951 opera based on the novella.

  1. ^ "Beau travail (2000) - JPBox-Office". www.jpbox-office.com.