02-23-2022, 10:34 AM
[seen on Kanopy]
A Jean-Paul Belmondo vehicle that was a little too flippant for my tastes. The aristocracy are depicted as incompetent buffoons and Belmondo cuts through them with hack-and-slash ease. The movie is also known as Swords of Blood, which is why I watched it, and also to honor Belmondo's memory as he recently died. But there has to be better vehicles out there for that. Still, I'm now curious where Belmondo ranks in the pantheon of "actors who can fence." Most of the fighting was chaotic whack-a-moley, but in one sequence he takes on two opponents in a structured fencing duel, and he seemed to show some skills.
Of Belmondo's two love interests, one was Claudia Cardinale -- twenty or so at the time. My big takeaway from the movie is just what an astonishingly beautiful young lady Claudia Cardinale was before she matured into an astonishingly beautiful woman.
A Jean-Paul Belmondo vehicle that was a little too flippant for my tastes. The aristocracy are depicted as incompetent buffoons and Belmondo cuts through them with hack-and-slash ease. The movie is also known as Swords of Blood, which is why I watched it, and also to honor Belmondo's memory as he recently died. But there has to be better vehicles out there for that. Still, I'm now curious where Belmondo ranks in the pantheon of "actors who can fence." Most of the fighting was chaotic whack-a-moley, but in one sequence he takes on two opponents in a structured fencing duel, and he seemed to show some skills.
Of Belmondo's two love interests, one was Claudia Cardinale -- twenty or so at the time. My big takeaway from the movie is just what an astonishingly beautiful young lady Claudia Cardinale was before she matured into an astonishingly beautiful woman.