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Beau TravailBeau Travail (1998) is Claire Denis' bold, sensuous masterpiece. Loosely based on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor (1924), the film explores the complexities of desire, identity, and power within an all male group of French Foreign Legionnaires stationed at a coastal outpost in the former colony of Djibouti, in East Africa. The film cemented Denis' position as a leading auteur and visual poet. In this book, Corinn Columpar positions the film as a

With charming narrative

a wealthy young man lives with his girlfriend in his opulent Paris apartment

and publisher of zines

The book and each thematic section are brilliantly introduced and contextualized by Susan Wood

A novel of secrets and female solidarity set in post-war Milan

this experience was the inspiration for The Little Prince

What if the key to happiness

and a circle of friends coming of age in a new era

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it’s Aunt Colette

The text of Hammad’s seminal speech and her afterword

But when Juniper accidentally volunteers them both for a quest to kill a fearsome monster