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Beau Travail

1999

A former French Foreign Legion officer, exiled and adrift, remembers his rigidly ordered days commanding troops in the parched Gulf of Djibouti, and the jealous obsession with a charismatic young recruit that undid him. Claire Denis's hypnotic, sensuous masterpiece.

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