What forms can solidarity take in the least solid of the plastic arts? Claire Denis asks this question in the images of the human body’s solidity in her films and, more specifically, in her discussions ofBeau Travail. Projecting thoughts onto a pair of short sequences from her ‘African’ films,Beau Travail andChocolat, this paper touches on Denis’s answers.
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