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That Night in Varennes (1982)
Director: Ettore Scola
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From Time Out Film Guide
Featuring such notables as Tom Paine (Keitel), the ageing Casanova (Mastroianni), the randy writer Restif de la Bretonne (Barrault), and an Austrian countess (Schygulla), this is a picaresque story of the coach and party that followed hard on the one which tried to transport Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to safety in 1791. Thus is history viewed not through the eyes of its main participants, but through the appetites, passions and prejudices of its commentators and bit players. The result is like Tom Jones crossed with Stagecoach, with the addition of Sergio Amidei and Scola's wise and witty dialogue, some sumptuous painterly landscapes, and a subtle feeling for the period far removed from the clichés of British imagining. There's a real sense both of history in the making and of life in the living: a warm, bravura work of lasting majesty.Author: SGr
Cast & crew
Director: Ettore Scola
Producer: Renzo Rossellini
Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel, Jean-Claude Brialy, Daniel Gélin, Andrea Ferreol, Michel Vitold, Laura Betti, Jean-Louis Trintignant full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 165 mins
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