The Back Row Manifesto’s Incredibly Personal, Completely Subjective List of the Best Films of The Decade (2000-2009) will be unveiled over the course of the month of December. Think of it as a sort of ...

The Stranger‘s love affair with Claire Denis’s masterpiece Beau Travail began in 2000 with this sentence by the film critic who in Seattle still has no equal, Bruce Reid: “Beauty is a dangerous thing.

In this intense and well-acted 2000 adaptation of Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd, the story is set on an outpost of French Legionnaires in modern-day East Africa. Denis Lavant stars as a ...

Beau travail features a lot of scenes of half-naked men gripping each other. Credit: Courtesy of New Yorker Films Every weekday during March, Women’s History Month, we’ll be writing about a great film ...

Claire Denis’s film “Beau Travail,” a luminous tale of desire and despair in the French Foreign Legion, had an uncanny effect on me when I first watched it some years after its release, in 1999. I ...