Me and Al and Kath watched this the other night. Absolutely fantastic! A wonderfully individual film, it's like nothing I've ever seen. Full of beautiful photography, amazingly choreographed sequences of men in the Foreign Legion training, a real unnerving sense of forboding, of something not-quite-seen, something larger than than the men in the landscape. It's a fascinating enquiry into isolation, purity, the beauty of human - particularly male - bodies, and the image. It's use of music is also fantastic. In this sequence, we see a fabulous (and hitherto unknown to me) Neil Young song, the droney underlying score and at the end, parts of Benjamin Britten's opera for Herman Melville's Billy Budd, which the film is losely based on.
This vid is part of the whole film that the user's put on! Great! I urge you to watch it all, although I suppose it does deserve a big, big screen.
Me
- Mark
- I am writing a PhD at the University of Glasgow entitled "The Poetics of Time in Contemporary Literature". My writing has been published in Type Review, Dancehall, Puffin Review and TheState. I review books for Gutter and The List. I am also an editor and reviewer at the Glasgow Review of Books.
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