“Maybe freedom begins with remorse.”
Foreign Legion officer Galoup recalls his once glorious life, training troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, until the arrival of a promising young recruit, Sentain, plants the seeds of jealousy in Galoup's mind.
Claire Denis
Patrick Grandperret
Jérôme Minet
Jean-Pol Fargeau
Claire Denis
Agnès Godard
Eran Zur
Denis Lavant
Galoup
Michel Subor
Commander Bruno Forestier
Grégoire Colin
Gilles Sentain
Richard Courcet
Legionnaire
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Legionnaire
Adiatou Massudi
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Legionnaire
Dan Herzberg
Legionnaire
Giuseppe Molino
Legionnaire
Gianfranco Poddighe
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Denis Lavant is good in this powerfully delivered reminiscence of soldier "Galoup". Having previously been stationed with his French regiment in Djibouti, director Claire Denis now takes us on a gently paced but effective retrospective as he revisits his time there where his life of discipline and r...
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