A loose retelling of Billy Budd, set among a troop of Foreign Legionnaires stationed in the Gulf of Djibouti. Beneath a scorching sun, shirtless young men exercise to the strains of Benjamin Britten, under the watchful eye of Denis Lavant’s stone-faced officer Galoup, their obsessively ritualized movements simmering with barely suppressed violence. When a handsome recruit wins the favor of the regiment’s commander, cracks start to appear in Galoup’s fragile composure. (2024) — Sgt. Tiki
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