Napoleon on media
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:04 am
I open the thread with a list of movies over the Napoleonic age.
That’s with hope to start a good discussion over Napoleon and media…..
N (Io e Napoleone)
Paolo Virzì, 2006
Daniel Auteuil, Elio Germano, Monica Bellucci, Sabrina Impacciatore , Valerio Mastandrea
It’a a nice and fun Italian movie taking moves from Napoleon exile in Elba. The brilliant use of local dialect is very cool. I liked Napoleon interpretation by French actor Daniel Auteuil.
M. Bellucci presence is just a “ beauty's presence”…… as usual!
WATERLOO
Sergei Bondarchuk, 1970
Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna,
A mastership! Many episodes of the battle, already reported by historians are accurately quoted in the movie. Battle scenes are great.
War and Peace
Sergei Bondarchuk, 1967
Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Gennadi Ivanov, Irina Gubanova, Antonina Shuranova, Sergei Bondarchuk, N. Afrikyants, V. Alakhverdova, Rodion Aleksandrov, Igor Alekseyev , N. Aparin, N. Avetisova, V. Badayev, Aleksei Bakhar
It’s the most accurate and detailed movie version of War and Peace. The battle scenes are impressive. The film is quite slow compared to Hollywood movies.
Monsieur N.
Antoine de Caunes, 2003
Philippe Torreton, Richard E. Grant, Jay Rodan, Elsa Zylberstein, Roschdy Zem.
A fantasy version of the exile in St. Helen and Boney’s escape.
I did not like it at all. Poore players performance, but all!
Fuoco su di me
Lamberto Lambertini, 2006
Omar Sharif, Massimiliano Varrese, Sonali Kulkarni.
The movie deals with last weeks of Murat in 1815.
I have the DVD in my collection, but not seen it yet.
Goya's Ghosts
Milos Forman, 2006
Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård, Randy Quaid, Blanca Portillo, Michael Lonsdale, José Luis Gómez
The movie is set in Spain, for most part during the Peninsular War: so in some way it gives the flavour of the age. I usually like M. Forman’s movie, not this one indeed!
Quills
Philip Kaufman, 2000
Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine.
We have a mastership here, with great actors performances. The movie is set in the First Empire age, but has few to deal with historical events. Napoleon is quoted, with exquisite irony, in a brief sequence in the opening.
Danton
Andrzej Wajda, 1983
Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche, Patrice Chéreau, Emmanuelle Debever.
Danton fall in a very accurate historical movie. Liked Depardieu performance.
That’s with hope to start a good discussion over Napoleon and media…..
N (Io e Napoleone)
Paolo Virzì, 2006
Daniel Auteuil, Elio Germano, Monica Bellucci, Sabrina Impacciatore , Valerio Mastandrea
It’a a nice and fun Italian movie taking moves from Napoleon exile in Elba. The brilliant use of local dialect is very cool. I liked Napoleon interpretation by French actor Daniel Auteuil.
M. Bellucci presence is just a “ beauty's presence”…… as usual!
WATERLOO
Sergei Bondarchuk, 1970
Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna,
A mastership! Many episodes of the battle, already reported by historians are accurately quoted in the movie. Battle scenes are great.
War and Peace
Sergei Bondarchuk, 1967
Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Gennadi Ivanov, Irina Gubanova, Antonina Shuranova, Sergei Bondarchuk, N. Afrikyants, V. Alakhverdova, Rodion Aleksandrov, Igor Alekseyev , N. Aparin, N. Avetisova, V. Badayev, Aleksei Bakhar
It’s the most accurate and detailed movie version of War and Peace. The battle scenes are impressive. The film is quite slow compared to Hollywood movies.
Monsieur N.
Antoine de Caunes, 2003
Philippe Torreton, Richard E. Grant, Jay Rodan, Elsa Zylberstein, Roschdy Zem.
A fantasy version of the exile in St. Helen and Boney’s escape.
I did not like it at all. Poore players performance, but all!
Fuoco su di me
Lamberto Lambertini, 2006
Omar Sharif, Massimiliano Varrese, Sonali Kulkarni.
The movie deals with last weeks of Murat in 1815.
I have the DVD in my collection, but not seen it yet.
Goya's Ghosts
Milos Forman, 2006
Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman, Stellan Skarsgård, Randy Quaid, Blanca Portillo, Michael Lonsdale, José Luis Gómez
The movie is set in Spain, for most part during the Peninsular War: so in some way it gives the flavour of the age. I usually like M. Forman’s movie, not this one indeed!
Quills
Philip Kaufman, 2000
Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine.
We have a mastership here, with great actors performances. The movie is set in the First Empire age, but has few to deal with historical events. Napoleon is quoted, with exquisite irony, in a brief sequence in the opening.
Danton
Andrzej Wajda, 1983
Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro, Roland Blanche, Patrice Chéreau, Emmanuelle Debever.
Danton fall in a very accurate historical movie. Liked Depardieu performance.
Great ambientation and terrific cossacks 
But it seems to be a master piece.
