The story takes place in medieval France. Poet-rogue Francois Villon, sentenced to hang by King Louis XI for writing derogatory verses about him, is offered a temporary reprieve.

If you have a soft spot for guys in tights shouting their feelings at the top of their lungs, you should probably watch this today. It is a total trip into how movies used to look when they were still trying to figure out how microphones worked. But if you hate stagey acting where every gesture looks like it’s being p...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

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"If you have a soft spot for guys in tights shouting their feelings at the top of their lungs, you should probably watch this today. It is a total trip into how movies used to look when they were still trying to figure out how microphones worked. But if you hate stagey acting where every gesture looks like it’s being performed for the person in the very last row of a theater, you will probably want to turn this off after five minutes. It is not subtle. At all. 🏰 I went into this one mostly cur..."
Thora Waverly
William H. Post, R.H. Russell, Justin Huntly McCarthy, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Brian Hooker
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