1981 · comedy · history
History of the World, Part I
Directed by Mel Brooks1h 32m1981
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
Our read: History of the World, Part I (1981) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive comedy · history entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Cosy, kinetic, measured comedy / history, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- inventive
- funny
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