Solar Citalopram: Beau Travail, Ken, and Burning Isolation

|Finn Odum| Author’s note: This essay contains discussions of fictional suicide and real-life suicidal ideation. I. Citalopram On a relatively warm Monday evening last September, while on a short walk to see Kenji Misumi’s Ken at the Trylon, I found myself struggling to cross the street… Continue reading

All Our Trashcans Within: Tears and Other Feelings in Claire Denis’s Beau Travail

|Ben Tuthill| The first time I watched Beau Travail, I cried for ten minutes straight. I watched it alone. I didn’t understand the plot very well. I knew that the final scene was famous, but when it happened I didn’t really get it. I started crying right about the moment the first credits hit… Continue reading