#daniel mesguich

[the-marquis]

Danièle Lebrun as Joséphine de Beauharnais.

Daniel Mesguich as Napoleon Bonaparte.

Joséphine ou la Comédie des ambitions 1979.

[pan-de-pescado]

[dare-g]

The Beautiful Prisoner (1983)

[norrevu]

Naps and Duroc from Josephine ou la comedie des ambitions

[mtonino]

L'amour en Fuite (1979) François Truffaut

[empirearchives]

How I look when I post on tumblr dot com:

[veryslowreader]

Shadow of a Running Man by Christopher Bray

Love on the Run

[watchingalotofmovies]

The Beautiful Prisoner

The Beautiful Prisoner    [trailer]

Walter is told by his boss to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up.

What does it all mean? Dream logic and being a dream within a dream comes to mind. But I guess it's best to avoid such a question because I don't think there is a clear answer.

I can see some references to Magritte and a faint connection with Last Year at Marienbad. But overall this wasn't for me.

Though the brief appearance of Daniel Emilfork as the inspecteur provided some amusing, lighter moments.

I wondered if character names like Zeitgeist and Morgentodt have any additional meaning.