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Claire Denis' 1999 film 'Beau Travail' features a stunning performance from Denis Lavant as Adjudant-Chef Galoup, a jealous leader of the French Foreign Legion.

IF I WERE GUARDING the gates of heaven, I’d let in all the cinematographers, no questions asked. They toil for such piddling rewards here on Earth. No matter how transcendent their efforts, they answer to a director who may or may not know anything about lenses or color grading but gets the bulk of the credit either way. On the rare occasion that a cinematographer receives some mainstream attention, it’s usually because there’s something showoff-y about the work: Emmanuel Lubezki’s look-...

The French-Swiss filmmaker died on September 13 at age 91

He enjoyed a career renaissance when he was cast in a starring role in Claire Denis’s acclaimed Beau Travail

There Are Only 13 Near-Perfect War Movies According To Metacritic There Are Only 13 Near-Perfect War Movies According To Metacritic Summit Entertainment By Zoë Z. Dean/May 18, 2021 4:17 pm EDT/Updated: May 18, 2021 4:17 pm EDT "War movies" sound like they would all have a lot in common, but the top-rated ones on Metacritic prove the genre is wider and deeper than you might think. Not all the movies are even about soldiers. Some of the best films on this list take place on the...

Sign up for Sight & Sound’s Weekly Film Bulletin and more News, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. Email Sign up Are the films of Claire Denis French cinema’s best kept secret? It certainly seems so in the UK. While her work is regularly praised at film festivals around the world, her last film to be distributed here was her Cameroon-set debut Chocolat in 1988. None of her subsequent films has made more than a festival ap...