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FOUR WAYS

Today's film was the NYTimes Critics' Pick, Bernard Tavinier's

La princesse de Montpensier / The Princess of Montpensier (2010)

In this period film, the princess manages to have a "relationship" with four different men. Not all at the same time. But in the same time period. Or is it that they have or think they have a relationship with her.

The princess is a very modern woman in many respects. She does not go for the old "do as you are told" and "marry who we tell you" shit.

She will marry but don't think that means anything unless she wants it to.

Well, maybe that is not modern.

I am not by any means mocking this film. It is filled with excitement, sword fights, bloody warring, some small amount of sex not very explicit but there is some. She does give in from time to time.

I enjoyed this very much. I even learned just a little bit about the Thirty Year War which ends and then keeps breaking out. Catholics versus the Huguenot "heretics".

The war is a backdrop for another war for the hand and more of the princess. Is she that hot? Probably. She is just the type that straight men want to bump in the night. But do they want commitment?

She has at least two who are willing to be committed but that doesn't seem simple enough for her.

Well, given the guys, I wouldn't settle for just one of them or two either.

I would be happy to sit and watch this again and that makes it a 4 out of Netflix5. The slaughter of a boar (which would be as ubiquitous as a deer in France) not withstanding. The dead dog is obviously breathing. Good boy.

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