@deanduncan63Saw Claire Denis’ #BeauTravail. Setting Melville’s Billy Budd in (post) colonial French Africa, not killing the Claggart figure, even going so far …
… as to tell the tale through his eyes, makes this into a fractured alternative version of L’Etranger! …
… And from an African-raised French woman to boot. Levels!
#BeauTravail. I’m grappling w’ echoes of The Immoralist, Death in Venice, The Sheltering Sky, & the Derek Jarman-like stylization & formalism …
… Meanwhile, Denis doesn’t seem beholden to any of those guys/texts. (The women!) Fragmented, elliptical, hallucinatory, extremely confident & evocative.
#BeauTravail. The last shot!
#BeauTravail. Do you find these intertexts aggravating? Here is Mr. J. Rosenbaum, doing it way better: http://bit.ly/1F0LI8O