Avis Metacritic

Unique and unforgettable.

Elegant.

You may not like Beau Travail - which is, after all, a quintessential "critic's film" - but I think you'll have to admit it's been almost perfectly executed.

A film that has the sweep and esthetic power of a full-length ballet.

Riveting.

A lovely piece of work.

A stunning work of beauty, mystery, contemplation, and grit -- and like sands through the desert hourglass, these are the days of our lives.

A ruggedly beautiful landscape of desert and sea provides a dramatic setting for a psychological drama told with the utmost rigor--and unabashed eroticism.

Denis dispenses with most of Melville's hefty Christian symbolism in favor of the story's other great theme -- repressed homoerotic desire.

So minimalist in characterization and dialogue that the plot all but evaporates -- and so does any dramatic power.