Le libertin (2000)
Country: FR
Technical: col 100m
Director: Gabriel Aghion
Cast: Vincent Perez, Fanny Ardant, Josiane Balasko, Michel Serrault, Arielle Dombasle, Audrey Tautou, Françoise Lépine
Synopsis:
Denis Diderot is the guest of libertine aristocrats who provide him with a clandestine printing shop so that he can continue with his production of the proscribed Encylopédie. When the baroness's cousin, a cardinal, arrives to pay a visit, they must keep him busy with trumped up confessions in order for him not to discover the truth. He has, however, already sent a spy on ahead.
Review:
A bit of a shambles, this. The few bits of serious ethical dialogue between Diderot and the femme savante portraitist are swamped by the carry-on hi-jinks and the jaunty, though hardly contemporaneous, music soundtrack. The filmmakers' general determination for the viewer to have a raunchy time rather than be intellectually tickled is confirmed when the Baronne addresses herself to camera, surely a no-no in period romps unsure of their terrain, which this one definitely is. It does entertain, fitfully, but is a waste of the talent bestowed upon it.
Country: FR
Technical: col 100m
Director: Gabriel Aghion
Cast: Vincent Perez, Fanny Ardant, Josiane Balasko, Michel Serrault, Arielle Dombasle, Audrey Tautou, Françoise Lépine
Synopsis:
Denis Diderot is the guest of libertine aristocrats who provide him with a clandestine printing shop so that he can continue with his production of the proscribed Encylopédie. When the baroness's cousin, a cardinal, arrives to pay a visit, they must keep him busy with trumped up confessions in order for him not to discover the truth. He has, however, already sent a spy on ahead.
Review:
A bit of a shambles, this. The few bits of serious ethical dialogue between Diderot and the femme savante portraitist are swamped by the carry-on hi-jinks and the jaunty, though hardly contemporaneous, music soundtrack. The filmmakers' general determination for the viewer to have a raunchy time rather than be intellectually tickled is confirmed when the Baronne addresses herself to camera, surely a no-no in period romps unsure of their terrain, which this one definitely is. It does entertain, fitfully, but is a waste of the talent bestowed upon it.
Country: FR
Technical: col 100m
Director: Gabriel Aghion
Cast: Vincent Perez, Fanny Ardant, Josiane Balasko, Michel Serrault, Arielle Dombasle, Audrey Tautou, Françoise Lépine
Synopsis:
Denis Diderot is the guest of libertine aristocrats who provide him with a clandestine printing shop so that he can continue with his production of the proscribed Encylopédie. When the baroness's cousin, a cardinal, arrives to pay a visit, they must keep him busy with trumped up confessions in order for him not to discover the truth. He has, however, already sent a spy on ahead.
Review:
A bit of a shambles, this. The few bits of serious ethical dialogue between Diderot and the femme savante portraitist are swamped by the carry-on hi-jinks and the jaunty, though hardly contemporaneous, music soundtrack. The filmmakers' general determination for the viewer to have a raunchy time rather than be intellectually tickled is confirmed when the Baronne addresses herself to camera, surely a no-no in period romps unsure of their terrain, which this one definitely is. It does entertain, fitfully, but is a waste of the talent bestowed upon it.