1852 Munich. The Austrian Ambassador's son is to marry Annie Tomasini when he is in love with her sister Thérèse.
Is it worth your time? If you have a thing for period costumes and the specific, agonizing slowness of 19th-century romantic misunderstandings, you might find this charming. But if you need your films to have a bit of dirt under their fingernails or at least one scene where someone shouts, you should probably stay away...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Jean Grémillon
Arthur Rosson
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"Is it worth your time? If you have a thing for period costumes and the specific, agonizing slowness of 19th-century romantic misunderstandings, you might find this charming. But if you need your films to have a bit of dirt under their fingernails or at least one scene where someone shouts, you should probably stay away. It’s very proper. Almost to a fault. The whole thing revolves around a guy who is supposed to marry one woman but is head-over-heels for her sister. It feels like the kind of se..."
Mila Parély
Walter Forster, Henri Falk, Emil Burri
Germany
