Notre Dame Writers Pick Some Movies for Us to Watch
Directed by Claire Denis
With Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin
Not Rated, 92 minutes, DCP
In French, Italian, and Russian with English subtitles
MFA Creative Writing Introduction Scheduled!
With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor, Claire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of our time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant (Denis Lavant) sows the seeds of his own ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit (Grégoire Colin) plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten. Denis and cinematographer Agnès Godard fold military and masculine codes of honor, colonialism's legacy, destructive jealousy, and repressed desire into shimmering, hypnotic images that ultimately explode in one of the most startling and unforgettable endings in all of modern cinema.
Free for ND, SMC, HC, and IUSB Students.
Directed by Claire Denis
With Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin
Not Rated, 92 minutes, DCP
In French, Italian, and Russian with English subtitles
MFA Creative Writing Introduction Scheduled!
With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor, Claire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of our time. Amid the azure waters and sunbaked desert landscapes of Djibouti, a French Foreign Legion sergeant (Denis Lavant) sows the seeds of his own ruin as his obsession with a striking young recruit (Grégoire Colin) plays out to the thunderous, operatic strains of Benjamin Britten. Denis and cinematographer Agnès Godard fold military and masculine codes of honor, colonialism's legacy, destructive jealousy, and repressed desire into shimmering, hypnotic images that ultimately explode in one of the most startling and unforgettable endings in all of modern cinema.
Free for ND, SMC, HC, and IUSB Students.
Sponsored by the Meg and John P. Brogan Endowment for Classic Cinema, The Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame.
Event Dates
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 9:30 PM
