Beau Travail – O belo trabalho da vida

Abstract

This essay proposes to look, listen, touch and feel French director Claire Denis’s movie Beau Travail. It is part of a wider research about the plastic narration of the bodies, the use of the dance in some films, and the contagious space that dance and cinema are, in dialog with the ideas of French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. In this way, we will introduce some questions around Claire Denis’s work, understanding her cinema as a cinema of the capturing of bodies in movement, that claims a poetic of the narrative flow, a cinema of the sensitive, where blocks of impressions and sensations encounter each other in the cinematographic montage.