“Literally dazzling camerawork” – Screen Daily
Claire Denis’ sensual, impressionistic masterpiece – loosely based on ‘Billy Budd’, relocated to a French Foreign Legion outpost in Djibouti – was voted 7th Greatest Film of All Time in Sight & Sound’s Critics Poll 2022.
“Poetic juxtaposition of music and stunning images of beauty and sustained, even surreal strangeness. Prepare to be blown away.” – Time Out
There will be a post-screening Q&A with Dr Mary Harrod, co-Chief General Editor of the journal ‘French Screen Studies’