If indescribable visual beauty, extraordinary subtlety, intelligence and poetic/elliptical narrative are amongst those things you value in cinema, then this film will not only not disappoint, it will become one of the benchmarks by which you measure all subsequent and previous narrative films. A film that is so exquisitely and intelligently crafted, choreographed and stylised that it defies belief. Its images will remain engraved in your memory for a long, long time - especially, perhaps, the astonishing final scene... As a specialist in French cinema, I would place "Beau travail" amongst the best French (and not just French) films ever made. On leaving the cinema, I overheard someone muttering about the "absence of a plot-line". And, indeed, "Beau travail" is definitely not for lazy spectators who need to be taken and held by the hand...
Review of Beau Travail
