Monsieur N.

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Monsieur N.
Monsieur N. film poster
Directed by	Antoine de Caunes
Written by
Produced by
Starring	Philippe Torreton Richard E. Grant Elsa Zylberstein Jay Rodan Frédéric Pierrot
Narrated by	François Marthouret
Distributed by	Empire Pictures
Release date	12 February 2003 (2003-02-12)
Running time	120 min.
Countries	France United Kingdom
Languages	French English Corsican

Monsieur N. is a 2003 British-French film directed by Antoine de Caunes. It tells the story of the last years of the life of the Emperor Napoléon (played by Philippe Torreton), who was imprisoned by the British on St Helena. Napoléon retained a loyal entourage of officers who helped him plot his escape, and evaded the attentions of Major-General Sir Hudson Lowe (Richard E. Grant), the island's overzealous Governor.

The film suggests that Napoléon could have escaped to Louisiana, where he died, and that the body exhumed and now at Les Invalides is that of Napoléon's officer Cipriani. The film also suggests that Napoléon and his young new English wife could have attended the ceremony of "Napoléon's" burial in the Invalides.

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Reception[]

The film was well received. As of July 2020, 71% of the 21 reviews compiled by Rotten Tomatoes are positive, with an average rating of 6.27/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Fueled by performances as polished as its visuals, Monsieur N. is a flawed yet largely absorbing look at an imagined chapter of Napoleon's exile."^[1]

The film received a positive but guarded review in The New York Times, which praised Philippe Torreton's performance but thought the narrative too complex for an audience not initiated in Napoléon's history.^[2]

External links[]

• (in French) Official site
• Monsieur N. at IMDb

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