François Villon - Poetul vagabond

Little is known about real biography of great Renaissance poet Francois Villon but by the end of the film I started to believe in his image created by Sergiu Nicolaescu.

On the one hand - the images of the Francois Villon and his lovers are taken from Paris of the 1980s and sometimes the film could remind you of theatrical play staged for TV. On the other hand - minimalistic dark colours and dark scenes are working for the idea of the film and general impressions from it are positive. Sometimes the events are developing slowly and dialogues are quite long, but I could agree with one of the previous reviewers - Sergiu Nicolaescu tried to create a kind of fresco or meditation about Medieval world. The fresco influenced by the poetry of Francois Villon, French cinema of the 1950-early 60s (films with Jean Marias), paintings by Peter Breugel and Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo.

The film hardly could be compared with Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman or treated as true reconstruction of life in Medieval France but it's still interesting because it's rare full length film about great poet and it was made with love to Francois Villon and with due respect to the spirit of his poetry.