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“The Horseman on the Roof” opens in Aix-en-Provence in July, 1832, as Austrian secret police hunt down two Italian revolutionaries operating from exile in France. At that time, a substantial chunk of northern Italy was under the control of the Austrian Empire, and Metternich’s spies regularly scoured Europe sniffing out and assassinating opponents of Austrian rule there. This movie revolves around Angelo Pardi (played by Olivier Martinez), one of the two revolutionaries.
Fleeing from the Austrian agents in Aix, Angelo goes out into rural Provence, where he rapid finds an even worse enemy: a massive cholera epidemic, “the worst in a century”, says one village doctor. As the epidemic spreads, mass hysteria follows in its wake. Rural Provencals begin to hunt down perceived “empoisonneurs” (poisoners), innocent people accused of contaminating the water (a scene approved in French history) . Angelo himself is attacked as he drinks water from a fountain while coming into one town. Here Gerard Depardieu makes a nominal appearance as the town’s police chief on the speed, who says rightly, “The cholera’s a bitch, but this is worse.” Angelo ends up hiding from the mob in the house of the exquisite Madame de Theus (played by Juliette Binoche) .
The main chronicle takes off when the army comes in and moves the entire town out into the countryside to sit in quarantine. There, Angelo runs into some of his exiled Italian friends, who have a perilous mission for him: shatter through the quarantine lines (he could be shot for doing it), bold the epidemic, and pace to Milan with two bags of money to relieve finance a rebellion against the Austrians.
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This task would be unsafe enough, but Angelo’s chivalry snags him into taking Madame de Theus alongside him on a wild trot in search of her husband, who vanished when the cholera broke out. Does she net him? Does Angelo build it to Italy? Do the Austrian spies reach aid into play? I’ll leave that for you to accept out.
Jean-Paul Rappeneau did an outstanding job with this film. The cinematography is grand and includes some glorious shots of the stunning landscape of Provence, ranging from the appetizing Rhone valley to the majestic Hautes-Alpes. (Yet it also leaves a miserable aftertaste leisurely and proves that Provence can be objective as discouraged a residence as anywhere else in Europe.) The acting is convincing, and so is the state. Five stars and more.
This is such a pleasing movie, it leaves me speechless.
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The scenery, the light, what a pleasing country the south of France is. It is a fancy tale that takes location in the mind. No bed scene. But I sigh, you won’t be bored for a second! If you haven’t read the current (which you should do) you might consider this to be some kind of Musketeer-Disney stuff. It isn’t – not only because it takes residence in another century. There is enough adventure, fighting and horseback riding to execute this one a movie for both of you to relish, you and your girl. But it also gets so mighty deeper. The actors present you savor can stand the test of time. It can even grow through wound. This one gives you strength and hope that things might regain better.
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