Jean Dujardin and Mélanie Laurent star in a ridiculous but enjoyable romp set during the Napoleonic era
British fans of Jean Dujardin and Mélanie Laurent may well feel they haven’t seen enough of their favourite French stars, since these actors’ international glory days in The Artist and Inglourious Basterds respectively. So here is a ridiculous yet enjoyable romp featuring them both – a ripe period-costume farce from the Napoleonic era, with lots of saucy intrigue and a bit of early-19th-century Bdsm. The budget is high. So is the camp. There are loads of bustles and bonnets, and it concludes with a battle scene worthy of Woody Allen’s Love and Death.
Dujardin plays the outrageously moustachioed Captain Charles-Grégoire Neuville, a Flashman-type rogue. He proposes marriage to Pauline (Noémie Merlant), a simpering young woman of noble birth, and is then called away to the wars. Poor Pauline pines away as the Captain doesn’t write,...
British fans of Jean Dujardin and Mélanie Laurent may well feel they haven’t seen enough of their favourite French stars, since these actors’ international glory days in The Artist and Inglourious Basterds respectively. So here is a ridiculous yet enjoyable romp featuring them both – a ripe period-costume farce from the Napoleonic era, with lots of saucy intrigue and a bit of early-19th-century Bdsm. The budget is high. So is the camp. There are loads of bustles and bonnets, and it concludes with a battle scene worthy of Woody Allen’s Love and Death.
Dujardin plays the outrageously moustachioed Captain Charles-Grégoire Neuville, a Flashman-type rogue. He proposes marriage to Pauline (Noémie Merlant), a simpering young woman of noble birth, and is then called away to the wars. Poor Pauline pines away as the Captain doesn’t write,...
- 12/6/2018
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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