Grégoire Colin Archives - cléo https://cleojournal.com/tag/gregoire-colin/ a journal of film and feminism Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:03:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 This Is the Rhythm of My Life: Failure in Claire Denis’ Beau Travail https://cleojournal.com/2013/11/28/this-is-the-rhythm-of-my-life-failure-in-claire-denis-beau-travail/ Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:04:57 +0000 https://cleojournal.com/?p=624 “To fail in everything, it is true, will always remain possible.” –Derrida, Specters of Marx In Claire Denis’ Beau Travail (1999), the eminence of doom is almost palpable; from the foregrounded terrain of war, to the protagonist Galoup’s (Denis Lavant) exclusion from the taut brotherhood of legionnaires and his reflections on mortality, it is a […]

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