Fresh
Napoleon and Me is always lively and often charming.
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
Overview
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.
Director and cast
- Paolo Virzì Director
- Daniel Auteuil as Napolen
- Monica Bellucci as Baronessa Emilia Speziali
- Elio Germano as Martino Papucci
- Sabrina Impacciatore as Diamantina Papucci
- Valerio Mastandrea as Ferrante Papucci
- Francesca Inaudi as Mirella
- Massimo Ceccherini as Cosimo Bartolini
- Omero Antonutti as Maestro Fontanelli
- Margarita Lozano as Pascalina
- José Ángel Egido as Marchand
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Fresh
Pleasant but ultimately slight costumer is generating good local press, though non-Italo auds will lose much of the heavily accented wordplay.
Jay Weissberg, Variety
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