This week we discuss two films from acclaimed French filmmaker Claire Denis.

The first is Beau Travail (1999), a loose adaptation of Herman Melville’s 1891 novella Billy Budd. The film centres on a group of French legionnaires serving in Djibouti.

The second is High Life (2018), starring Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche. The film tells the story of a group of convicted death row inmates sent into space for the purposes of black hole experimentation.

Timestamps

What We’ve Been Watching (00:01:08)

Andy – Host, Patrice O’Neal: Killing is Easy, The Uncredited Extras Podcast

Donnchadh – Yesterday, Banshee Season 2, Titanic, Me Myself & Irene

Beau Travail (00:12:30)

High Life (00:37:10)

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