Rose rosse per Angelica

This minor but elegant and entertaining swashbuckler will most probably make you fall asleep a number of times, since nothing really happens in it. Yes, there are romantic brigands and lovely women galore, all loved by the incorrigible Jacques Perrin as the dashing chevalier dressing up as a brigand at times to support the intrigues, this is one of a number of "Angélique" films, all romantic and lovely in exquisite superficiality, and she is naturally the centre of all the intrigues of love and politics. You will forget it all as soon as it is over and never return to it again, while you might remember the one scene at Versailles with the king, Louis XVI, and his brother the Duke of Artois, for the splendour of the interior of this consummate castle of luxury, one of the reasons for the bankruptcy of France and the ensuing revolution. It does not get started here, there are only some preparations that lead to nothing, the entire film being like some luxurious fireworks that just fizzle.

Probably made to capitalize on the success of Christian-Jaque's "La Tulipe Noire" ,which was also a so-called Dumas adaptation and which also ended when the French Revolution began ;Jacques Perrin is pleasant as a reluctant hero,who,in the beginning of his new "career" ,runs THE operations from a distance.A historic figure (Le Comte D'Artois,Louis the Sixteenth 's brother) appears to help the villain but the scene in Versailles is ludicrous.

As Perrin is no match for Belmondo or Marais,as far as amazing feats are concerned,he makes up for it with a good sense of humor.The historical background is vague and thin,but why deny yourself an entertaining little swashbuckler?