The Horseman on the Roof
by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
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Actor: Fran?ois Cluzet, Jean Yanne, Juliette Binoche, Olivier Martinez, Pierre ArditiDirector: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Brand: Horseman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-06-03
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of The Horseman on the Roof
Movie Review: The Horseman on the Roof - Gorgeous, Romantic and Exciting
Summary: 4 Stars
The time is 1832, certain Italians are fomenting a revolution against the Austrian Empire for control of the northern part of their country. Some of the revolutionaries have gone into exile in France, where they are pursued by Austrian agents. What starts out as a an an action filled escape from the Austrian agents quickly becomes an effort to escape the cholera pandemic sweeping France. Further complicating matters are angry mobs ready to chase down and lynch strangers whom they suspect of poisoning their water, and avoiding French soldiers who have orders to round up everyone and put them in quarantine. (Quarantine being something you want to avoid at all costs. To be thrown in with the sick and dying is a nearly guaranteed death sentence.)
This is a gorgeous movie with spectacular cinematography of the French countryside, including a breathtaking fairy tale castle near the Alps.
The equally gorgeous cast includes Olivier Martinez as Angelo Pardi, a young Italian colonel, and Juliette Binoche as Pauline de Th?us, a French noblewoman. Pardi is a gallant gentleman who would not dream of pressing his affections on the lady whom he is escorting and protecting. The distance he maintains only serves to heighten the romantic aspect of the film. (This is for people who find "Jane Eyre" a far more exciting love story than something like "Pretty Woman".) There is also plenty of action and several exciting chase sequences to keep things lively.
The DVD special features include scene selection, sneak peeks, English subtitles and captioning for the hearing impaired.
In French (and a bit of Italian) with English subtitles.
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Summary of The Horseman on the Roof
Academy Award(R)-winner Juliette Binoche (Best Supporting Actress, THE ENGLISH PATIENT, 1996) highlights this rousing, passionate adventure! In a world ravaged by revolution and violence, two strangers -- a handsome renegade (Oliver Martinez, UNFAITHFUL) and a beautiful countess (Binoche) -- find their only chance for survival in each other! Together they undertake a perilous cross-country journey where they will also discover unmatched danger, excitement ... and passion! Universally praised by critics and moviegoers, THE HORSEMAN ON THE ROOF is another extraordinary film from the creators of the Academy Award(R)-winning CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Best Costume Design, 1990)!Olivier Martinez (Unfaithful, The Chambermaid) plays Angelo, an exceptionally gallant, Italian soldier-in-exile hiding out from his Austrian enemies in rural France, where a cholera epidemic is sweeping the countryside. Helped in a tough spot by a countess (Juliette Binoche), Angelo swears his unyielding protection to her as she searches for her missing husband. The nobler virtues hold sway as Martinez suppresses his own deepening love and desire for the lady, an admirable posture that has ironic consequences when the countess herself becomes deathly ill. Jean-Paul Rappeneau, maker of the ornamental but empty Cyrano de Bergerac, directs this adventure-romance to a nice pitch of vitality and high drama. The two leads establish a great chemistry (they became offscreen lovers and parents), like watching a pair of thoroughbreds running in the same race. --Tom Keogh
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