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| Category | Foreign Films DVDs, Thriller Movies, Mystery Videos, Crime, French, Period Piece, Historical, Epic, Conspiracies, Prison | | Starring | Philippe Torreton, Richard E. Grant, Elsa Zylberstein, Frederic Pierrot, Jay Rodan, Siobhan Hewlett, Bruno Putzulu | | Director | Antoine de Caunes | | Composer | Stephan Eicher | | Director of Photography | Pierre Aim | | Producer | Pierre Kubel, Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar | | Screenwriter | Rene Manzor |
Philippe Torreton, Richard E. Grant, and Siobhan Hwelett star. After Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated at Waterloo, he was exiled to the south Atlantic island of St. Helena, where he purportedly died a few years later. Or did he? On a snowy winter's day in Paris in December 1840, a body is returned and exhumed in a large, official ceremony. France's famous former ruler, Napoleon Bonaparte, has died, and these are his remains, supposedly. Antoine de Caunes's MONSIEUR N. offers a fictitious mystery in the retelling of Bonaparte's (Philippe Torreton) final years. What he suggests is that the emperor may have escaped from exile, having faked his own death. In the years between 1816 and 1821, Bonaparte is a captive of the English on the remote island of St. Helena. He spends his days gardening, beekeeping, and writing his memoirs. A small inner circle of his compatriots surrounds him, most notably Cipriani (Bruno Putzulu). This otherwise tranquil existence is colored by the island's fallible characters. The unforgiving governor, Hudson Lowe (Richard E. Grant), is driven to deviant behavior over the rising cost of guarding a single prisoner with thousands of British soldiers. Furthermore, a jealous quibble develops between two ladies who vie for Bonaparte's love--an English woman named Betsy Balcombe (Siobhan Hewlett), and the wife of one of Bonaparte's generals. It seems that many want to curry favor with the former emperor, in order to eventually profit from his death.
The story is told from the point of view of a young English lieutenant, Basil Heathcote (Jay Rodan), who is assigned to shadow Bonaparte during his exile. MONSIEUR N. employs a CITIZEN KANE-like narrative structure, using Heathcote's interrogations of the island's principal characters to trigger flashbacks to St. Helena 20 years earlier. Featuring breathtaking cinematography while posing an interesting question about history's possibilities, MONSIEUR N. uses the hazy real-life details of Bonaparte's death to suggest some believable conspiracy theories. Theatrical Release: JANUARY 21, 2005 (NY) Monsieur N. Reviews: "[A]n elegant, sophisticated mystery..."-- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times "Mr. Torreton's glowering emperor, one of the most compelling Napoleons ever imagined for the screen, exerts a magnetic, if slightly repellent spell."-- Stephen Holden, New York Times Monsieur N. | List Price | $26.98 (You save $7.63) | | Studio | Empire Pictures | | Orig Year | 2005 | | All Time Sales Rank |  68996  | | CD Universe Part number | 6856854 | | Catalog number | 529 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jun 28, 2005 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 127 Minutes | | Additional Info | Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Subtitled |
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