11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
French Revolution period piece, August 27, 2001
This review is from: La Nuit de Varennes [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This is extremely well done. Costumes are excellent and well as the props settings and various scenes. It was the movie that made seek out a read Retif de la Bretonne. The movie takes several very strong and strictly in character persons and places them together on the coach following the fleeing King and Queen. I would say this is a must have for anyone interested in the French Revolution. I cant wait for this to be out on DVD.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Must come out on DVD, April 25, 2005
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It's a shame that this wonderful film is out of print (going at the moment for $99.00 used!) and that it is not yet out on DVD, even in France or the UK. One can only hope it will eventually be released on DVD.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
"IT'S NOT GOOD TO BE THE KING ANYMORE", July 24, 2001
By A Customer
This review is from: La Nuit de Varennes [VHS] (VHS Tape)
WHERE ELSE can you find : Marcello Mastroianni, Harvey Keitel, Hanna Schygulla and the great Jean-Louis Barrault sharing screen time? [Just to name a few of the stars].
This brilliant realization of the 'race to save' the doomed Louis XVI is conceived by director Ettore Scola. Costumes by Gabriella Pescucci ["Dangerous Beauty"] and Production design by Oscar nominee - Dante Feretti ["Titus", "Kundun", etc.] authentically capture this remarkble premature-revolution rush to save the Sun King!
In brief - a devoted royal, Schygulla, frantically tries to get the Royal Coronation robes to Varennees, where Louis, Marie-Antoinette and the rest of the family are in hiding; along the way her travel companions are respectively, Casanova, Thomas Paine [now in Europe, after our 1776 incident], and the historian de la Bretonne. Respectively played by, Mastroianni, Keitel, and Barrault, they are all magnificently in character especially Mastroianni, who leaves us with a moving, melancholy portrait, as the ageing Casanova [practially upstaging the rest of the talented thespians]. Barrault - is also a fascinating figure as the historian Nicolas Edme Restif de la Bretonne, passively observing the events. Can't say anymore - that would ruin the plot, the reasoning "behind the Royal Robes".
THE WORK RIVALS the beauty of Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon" and Fellini's "Casanova" - worthy companions though!
A rarely seen work, it well deserves a restored, wide-screen DVD release - long overdue!
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