Balzac Adaptation Is An Exercise In Restraint

At a ball, Armand de Montriveau (Guillame Depardieu) is relating a story to Antoinette de Langeais (Jeanne Balibar) and her friend. He was recently in London, and was shown the axe used to kill an infamous king. The only instructions he received from the executioner, he tells Antoinette, were: "Don't ... read more

Posted on 02/20/2008 by FC Scribes 01:44:AM