Minute 9: U.S. Go Home
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By Michael Ewins.
U.S. Go Home, directed by Claire Denis, 1994
In the films of Claire Denis, music doesn’t just bring the body to dance – it retrieves the soul from bondage. In No Fear, No Die (1990), émigré Jocelyn drunkenly sways to Buffalo Soldier, cradling the rooster he runs in illegal cockfights. Beau travail’s (1999) Sgt. Galoup, excused from his command, dances The Rhythm of the Night in the club of his pre-Legion youth. And in 35 Rhums (2008), patrons of a café trapped by a rainstorm p
U.S. Go Home, directed by Claire Denis, 1994
In the films of Claire Denis, music doesn’t just bring the body to dance – it retrieves the soul from bondage. In No Fear, No Die (1990), émigré Jocelyn drunkenly sways to Buffalo Soldier, cradling the rooster he runs in illegal cockfights. Beau travail’s (1999) Sgt. Galoup, excused from his command, dances The Rhythm of the Night in the club of his pre-Legion youth. And in 35 Rhums (2008), patrons of a café trapped by a rainstorm p
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