RUMORED BUZZ ON ASTOUNDING FLOOZY CHOKES ON A LOVE ROCKET

The film is framed because the recollections of Sergeant Galoup, a former French legionnaire stationed in Djibouti (he’s played with a mix of cruel reserve and vigorous physicality via the great Denis Lavant). Loosely depending on Herman Melville’s 1888 novella “Billy Budd,” the film makes brilliant use from the Benjamin Britten opera that