1927 · drama · biography · war
Napoleon
Directed by Abel Gance7h 5m1927
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
Our read: Napoleon (1927) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive drama · biography · war entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured drama / biography, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- brisk
- intense
- signature
- epic-stakes
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