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Napoleon (TV Miniseries) (3-Disc Collector's Edition)Rating:
Release Date: 29 April, 2003 Retail Price: $49.95 OUR Price: $44.99 You SAVE: $4.96! Cast: |
Napoleon (TV Miniseries) (3-Disc Collector's Edition) Reviews
Very good for TV
First off, this is not a six part series!! It may have been six parts in the French language edition, but this 3 disk set from A&E is not six parts, it is FOUR parts, each about 90 minutes long. The four episodes are on the first two disks, the third disk is devoted to extras, such as two documentaries, one on the life of Napoleon and one on Napoleon and Wellington (there is substantial overlap between the two documentaries).
Christian Clavier is too old to play the young Napoleon (and remember that this man became sole ruler of France at age 35). Isabella Rossalini is also much too old to play the young Josephine de Beauhernais, who was 32 when she met Napoleon, but she is a very fine actress and does a good job with the role.
Interestingly, the Battle of Lodi is depicted, but inexplicably made into a loss rather than a victory, which is strange because it was at Lodi that Napoleon became convinced he was chosen by destiny for great things. Generally, the battles are not given much coverage, but staging Napoleonic-era battles has proven prohibitively expensive even for big-budget cinema, never mind television. There are a few great scenes of Napoleon surrounded by his Old Guard, complete with bear-skin hats. There is also a great scene of Murat leading a heavy cavalry charge (curaissiers with breastplates and helmuts) at the battle of Eylau. (Think about what percentage of the Napoleonic-era European gross national product was plowed into military uniforms, considering that we cannot afford to reproduce very many of them today for purposes of Television or Motion Pictures).
The most puzzling ommission is the 1812 campaign in Russia; it was the disaster that doomed Napoleon, but it gets less than 5 minutes of screen time in this six-hour miniseries.
The production values are sky-high for television. Apparently, the producers were given access to every palace they wanted to film in.
Intresting
This is very informative, it is not only about the war he fought but it is also about his wife. I have only seen the first one.
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