Sunday, November 04, 2012
HISTORIC
Today's Daniel Autieul film was the huge costume drama
La reine Margot / Queen Margot (1994)
where Autieul plays an entirely different kind of role. Henri of Navarre. Eventually Henry III of France.
This is big French history. Protestants, Catholics, the Medicis and even a lover for Margot.
Isabelle Adjani is Margot, Vincent Perez as the lover and Virna Lisi as the evil mother of the current king as well as his brothers who lust after the same throne.
It is adapted from a Dumas novel about the period. Actual history not withstanding. But who knows, it may be gospel.
Beautifully photographed and filled with lots of bodies, naked and otherwise, the film is long and sometimes difficult to follow at the start. But still. I liked it. Auteiul does his best in a tough part with a funny wig. I am glad I saw it but once is enough.
A 3 out of Netflix5.
Labels: films
