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If you liked the French-Polish masterpiece DANTON, you'll love the wacky French-Belgian-Czech Reign of Terror comedy THE VISITORS: BASTILLE DAY. Jean-Marie Poiré's not-quite-triumphant return to filmmaking after a fourteen-year hiatus from directing, LES VISITEURS: LA REVOLUTION features a time-hopping medieval knight (Jean Reno) who accidentally winds up in the middle of The French Revolution, where hilarity ensues.
Will Jean Reno thwart the wicked Eusæbius the Enchanter by finding one of the wizard's wicked descendants who can finally restore him to the early 12th century, where he belongs?
Will we at last understand the je ne sais quoi that has made Franck Dusobsc "the 94th most profitable actor in French cinema"?
Was Nicolas Vaude so unsettled by the searing experience of playing "A Protestant" in Patrice Chereau's stunning LA REINE MARGOT -- which features the mass murder of Protestants during the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre -- that he swore vengeance on Chereau? Is it because Chereau played the doomed Claude Desmoulins in DANTON that Vaude insisted on playing Robespierre in LES VISITEURS, since Robespierre is the man who sent Desmoulins to the guillotine?
There's one way to find out... |
