“What is really remarkable about Denis’s film is the way she succeeds in fusing the real and the dreamlike, the naturalistic and the figurative, into one visual conceit. Never for one moment does this shimmering, simmering emotional desert storm of a film relax its grip on your senses. ”
Pride Month Screening
Ex-Foreign Legion officer, Galoup (Denis Lavant), recalls his experiences in the Gulf of Djibouti, when his life was gloriously happy and strictly regimented. But the arrival of promising young recruit, Sentain (Grégoire Colin), and the emotions he stirs in Galoup, threatens to destroy everything... Claire Denis' modern homoerotic reworking of Herman Melville's classic novella, Billy Bud, is a shimmering emotional desert storm of a film.