This time we do some good work, or make a good catch, or a nice find, or whatever beau travail is supposed to mean. Also, Marcia joins us to play games! Loose Canons Ep. 26 Beau Travail 00:00-01:05 Marcia joins the Podcast! (Ilya is away)01:05-09:10 Let’s Play a Game!09:10-11:30 Brief Plot Recap: Reuben (who used to hate this movie) 11:30-19:30 Loved It (Reuben), Liked It (Marcia, Patrick liked it OK), On The Fence (Basil) 19:30-22:00 Reuben thinks this movie is funnier/more playful than he initially gave it credit for 22:10-22:40 The perfect crease 22:40-23:20 Weird army exercises 23:20-24:00 The women are the Greek chorus of the movie 24:00-25:50 Colonialism & Branding 25:50-26:30 Marcia thinks the movie is less postcolonial as much as it is about new colonial powers 26:30-27:30 The Sexyfication of Sentain 27:30-29:05 Laura Mulvey and the meaning of looking 29:05-30:30 Galoup’s body issues as satire of Leni Riefenstahl’s obsessive bod worship 30:30-32:00 Galoup – He’s The Greatest Dancer 32:00-32:45 Patrick likes that kiss-kiss pop song in the beginning 32:45-33:30 Basil likes the women staring back in the African Disco 33:30-34:30 Galoup’s heaven is a Discotheque (with him in it) 34:30-36:00 Is there even any good work left in the world? 36:00-37:45 More weird Army exercises 37:45-38:30 Galoup and Sentain get really close to kissing 38:30-41:15 Patrick doesn’t get the Galoup/Sentain jealousy 41:15-42:00 Computer proooooooooblems! 42:00-42:45 Marcia read a hilarious gay panic-filled synopsis of this movie 42:45-43:20 GOOGLING PORTION! 43:20-44:30 Looking at pictures of the French Foreign Legion 44:30-44:45 Join the French Legion and get hugged! 44:45-45:40 Reuben likes that this is a poetic movie that also makes fun of itself 45:40-46:20 Basil feels like that church digging scene was from another (worse) movie 46:20-46:50 Instead of slow motion people just move really slowly 46:50-48:35 Loose scripting and amateur acting 48:35-49:30 Finally a movie that acknowledges Denis Levant is weird-looking 49:30-50:20 Reuben thinks he looks weird in a good way 50:20-51:10 Patrick talks about Rooney and Kate Mara for a bit 51:10-52:00 Betsy hates Denis Levant’s face 52:00-53:20 Reuben saw a movie where Sentain looks like a child 53:20-54:00 How about them salt fields! 54:00-55:00 Basil had a lot of salt in his movie diet that day 55:00-55:50 Reuben likes a lot of shots in this movie 55:50-57:40 Basil hates the digital look (and hates that he notices that) 57:40-58:20 Car problems in Beau Travail 58:20-01:00:10 Reuben wants to check other Denis films for funny parts 01:00:10-01:01:10 I Can’t Sleep and Vendredi Soir 01:01:10-01:02:40 Inversions in Beau Travail (Military life as regular life, sexual repression causes perversion) 01:02:40-01:04:30 JBaum on Beau Travail (as usual, his review ends when it gets really interesting) 01:04:30-01:12:00 Let’s Play a Game again! 01:12:00-01:12:47 Thanks, Marcia! Thanks for listening everybody!