Saturday, November 10, 2012
SWASH BUCKLE
Today's Daniel Autieul film was
This is the fifth film based on the novel so there is nothing new here except a modern take on costume dramas and swordplay.
Autieul plays two parts here. Both with great flair. He is not a young man. Yet, he rides the horse, fights with the sword, runs and jumps and plays a lover of a woman twenty years younger than he. And convincingly.
It is great fun to watch. I thought a little long and then it caught me with the sub, sub sub plot and carried to the victorious and romantic end. Exciting!
There are old fashioned villains and scenes and ideas but they all come off fresh and new somehow.
This is like the Errol Flynn films or the Burt Lancaster vehicles when I was a kid.
Autieul's range is amazing. And he is no matinee idol. That nose. They even make it bigger for his disguise as the hunchback (boss).
I liked it a lot and will rate it a 3 out of Netflix5.
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