Beau Rivage- A beautiful Place

Advantages: Beautiful beach, excellent service, friendly, great in every way
Disadvantages: weather not extremely hot in our summer, but it is still nice

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Mia_x 02.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of Beau Rivage Hotel, Belle Mare

Quality resort, fantasic beach

Advantages: Wonderful beach, nice staff, oversized pool, large rooms
Disadvantages: Prices in the hotel, slow service

...My family and I have visited Mauritius twice, and on both occasions we stayed at the Beau Rivage. Our most recent trip was at the beginning of January 2007 and we stayed for a week. The Beau Rivage is a family hotel. It's catered for families. It is a 5 star hotel, but it is not quite up to the very very high standard of the other luxury hotels on the island. It's a very good resort style hotel, but it lacks the cutting edge you would experience in the other 5 star deluxe hotels. However, I believe they are building a new wing with butler attended suites, so as to challenge the top end hotels on the island. And if it is 5 star you want, the Beau Rivage is the most price efficient option. It is considerably cheaper than its rivals. Look out for very good deals, usually available all year round such as buy a week, get a week free...

sabina20 16.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Beau Rivage Hotel, Belle Mare

Everything you have dreamed of in Paradise

Advantages: Beautiful hotel resort, friendly staff
Disadvantages: Bit pricey but worth the money

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Moshulu123 14.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of Beau Rivage Hotel, Belle Mare

  Billy Budd Meets Nemesis in the Desert

Advantages: Superb acting, Agnes Godard's cinematography, Benjamin Britten's opera, Afro-pop music, and Claire Denis' subtle direction.
Disadvantages: Galoup's motives and Sentain's character not fully spelled out; much too easy to dismiss as dull and pretentious.

...In "Beau Travail"/"Good Work" (1999), French director Claire Denis' film inspired by Herman Melville's "Billy Budd", we are never quite sure why officer Galoup harbors such a disdain for new legionnaire Gilles Sentain, only that he does. In this remote French Foreign Legion outpost in Djibouti, in the North African Republic of Djibouti (a land surrounded by Eritrea to the north, Ethiopia to the west and south, Somalia to the southeast and the Red Sea to the east), Galoup is the officer in charge of some new guys, and answerable only to his commander, Bruno Forestier. He takes an immediate dislike to Sentain after the strong, quiet young man carries out actions that make him look heroic in the eyes of the others. Not that Sentain, a foundling and most likely an independent spirit at heart, does what he does to gain popularity, or for any...

zerbine28 22.03.2003 (23.03.2003) · Read review
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Review of Beau Travail (Subtitled) (DVD)

Legionnaire's Dis-ease

Advantages: the best French film in a decade
Disadvantages: Narrow appeal; a "film person's film "

...Claire Denis' "Beau Traivail" is arguably the most significant French film of the last ten years and, if it is an indicator of things to come, is good news for French cinema in the new century. The story, drawn loosely from Melville's "Billy Budd", examines the odd, all-consuming and ultimately unexplained hatred of one man for another. Transposed from Melville's ship-bound setting to the French Foreign Legion, Denis' setting perfectly substitutes the confined, all-male world of the sailing ship for a remote Legion training camp outside Djibouti. In this remote, almost monastic setting, Denis Lavant's long-serving drill sargeant slowly feels his familiar and small world slipping into unfamiliar territory with the arrival of a particular new recruit. Popular with his peers and the veteran NCO, there is no clear reason...

roughslack 21.07.2000 · Read review
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Review of Beau Travail (Subtitled) (DVD)

Enough of the moody voice-overs already!

Advantages: Pretty in places...
Disadvantages: Pretentious with a very large 'P'!

...Beau Travail - a truly pretentious film drawing on the plots of Billy Budd and Beau Geste. How many more French films do we need to see that are almost entirely devoid of plot and where we are conducted through the action (or in this case, lack thereof) via a moody, monotone voiceover? The gratuitous scenes of lithe, tanned men, stripped to the waist enaging in yogic rituals and body slapping grow very tedious very quickly. I had been drawn to the film on the promise that it would be chock full of beautifully filmed panoramas of North Africa. Instead, we were served a bland dish of lingering, meaningless shots of salt flats and arrid scrub land. The opening scene set in a night club is just about enjoyable and this is only thanks to the music. If you like pseudo-intellectual dross then this film is a must, otherwise spend your...

JonnyP 16.08.2000 · Read review
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Review of Beau Travail (Subtitled) (DVD)

It's Roy-Boss NOT Rooey-Beau

Advantages: low-caffeine, low tannin, rich antioxidant, organic
Disadvantages: slightly offputting smell, price,

...I discovered today that ?Rooibos? should be pronounced something like ?Roy-boss?. As I have been offering people something more like ?Rooey-beau? for a while and not attracting any comment, I think I am not the only person who didn?t know any better. Either that or my guests are all too polite to comment ? and I don?t think so! Anyway ?Rooibos? is actually Afrikaans for ?Red Bush? and hence the name for the tea made in the Cedarberg Mountain area of South Africa where the leaves of the Aspalathus Linearis bush are actually just as green as you might expect them to be, but have been observed to turn red after harvesting and when being dried and processed to make tea. This ?Mountain tea? as it was first known at the start of the twentieth century is considered by many to be a very healthy drink. Jacksons? claim on the packet that it...

Discerna 24.05.2003 · Read review
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Review of Jacksons Organic Breakfast Tea & Rooibos

Marseille - culture - climate =beau

Advantages: Gorgeous Climate, Beautiful Culture, Picture moment Scenaries
Disadvantages: driving(?)

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f18nfz 21.07.2007 · Read review
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Review of Marseille

Beauchief Hotel that isn't very 'beau'!!

Advantages: Quiet room
Disadvantages: Distance from city centre

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jjcb 01.03.2006 · Read review
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Review of Beauchief Corus Hotel, Sheffield

Beau, drôle, formidable = J'adore Amelie!

Advantages: Unique, funny, beautiful
Disadvantages: None

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JessL 26.12.2003 · Read review
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Review of Fabuleux destin d' Amélie Poulain, Le (2001)