01-23-2021, 09:41 PM
Arsene Lupin (2004)
This is actually a French film I watched on Amazon Prime. It's based on the root character and stars Kristen Scott Thomas and Eva Green, who are both fluent in French. It's an actioner, a creation story for Lupin, starting from his childhood and moving rapidly to him becoming a master gentleman thief.
It's absurd, so fast paced that it gets muddled and confusing. We enjoyed it. Apparently there's one room they always let you film in the Louvre, the one with the statue of Diana in the middle. There's a DaVinci code like mystery to find a royal treasure using clues in crucifixes and Thomas plays this centenarian witch.
The saving grace is that there's a lot of Savate. The disappointment is that Savate training takes place in a gorgeous Salle d'Armes (walls of swords and armor) and one dude even dons fencing garb for some single stick but no sword fight. Recommended for DOOM francophiles.
This is actually a French film I watched on Amazon Prime. It's based on the root character and stars Kristen Scott Thomas and Eva Green, who are both fluent in French. It's an actioner, a creation story for Lupin, starting from his childhood and moving rapidly to him becoming a master gentleman thief.
It's absurd, so fast paced that it gets muddled and confusing. We enjoyed it. Apparently there's one room they always let you film in the Louvre, the one with the statue of Diana in the middle. There's a DaVinci code like mystery to find a royal treasure using clues in crucifixes and Thomas plays this centenarian witch.
The saving grace is that there's a lot of Savate. The disappointment is that Savate training takes place in a gorgeous Salle d'Armes (walls of swords and armor) and one dude even dons fencing garb for some single stick but no sword fight. Recommended for DOOM francophiles.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse