A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the King, but he reveals the subversive plot to Anne of Austria..
Is this for you? If you like old French history and don't mind a movie that feels like it was filmed inside a very expensive, drafty library, you might like this. If you need your pacing tight and your action to actually, you know, happen, skip it. It’s for the patient viewer who likes watching people in fancy wigs tal...
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"Is this for you? If you like old French history and don't mind a movie that feels like it was filmed inside a very expensive, drafty library, you might like this. If you need your pacing tight and your action to actually, you know, happen, skip it. It’s for the patient viewer who likes watching people in fancy wigs talk themselves into corners. Honestly, I’m not sure why I sat through the whole thing, but there’s a certain weird magic to how Jérôme Perreau carries himself. He’s the classic hero..."
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