I don’t know what’s French for “these are the jokes, folks,” but … actually I do, it’s “ ce sont les blagues, les amis,” but that’s irrelevant. Screenwriter David Scarpa’s nuttier lines of dialogue are all over social media already, notably a feasting Napoleon’s gluttonous declaration - “Destiny has brought me this lamb chop!” - and his petulant playground lament about his British enemies: “You think you’re so great because you have boats!”
All that’s interwoven with Napoleon and Josephine’s courtship (sort of) and marriage (full of psychosexual power plays and a smidgen of kink). It’s a movie of men, horses, digital blood bursts and practical craftsmanship.
