Movie Review: Beau Travail Story: This French import from writer/director Claire Denis (Chocolat) is a pointless mess. Beau Travail means good work in French (at least that's what the subtitle said), but I don't think so. It is very loosely based on Melville's Billy Budd,' has practically no dialogue, there is an ever present narrator, no real story and no beginning, middle or end. The good thing is we are able to watch some very hard bodied young French Foreign Legionnaires doing their drills-running, shoveling, fighting, swimming, sweating, etc. If you enjoy watching young men doing some pointless exercises and engage in some semi-homoerotic stuff in the African desert, this film is for you. For everyone else, stay home. Acting: Like the acting in exercise videos Pets: Camels Visual Art: Nice vast African desert Soundtrack: Pretentious Length: 90 minutes (Thankfully) LOBO HOWLS: 2