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The Black Book of Father Dinis

Le cahier noir

2018

Valeria Sarmiento

Lou de Laâge, Stanislas Merhar, Niels Schneider, Jenna Thiam ...

4.5

120

Drama The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from Lisbon to London, from Parma to Venice. Always followed in the shadows, for obscure reasons, by a suspicious-looking Calabrian and a troubling cardinal, they make us explore the dark ... [+]

	Author	Review
	David González Cineuropa	"The film flaunts a delectable anachronistic quality that won’t be to everyone’s taste, but that holds a great deal of charm for those able to forget about the way things happen in real life."	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"An exercise so defiantly old-school as to be hyper-modern, so augustly conservative as to be all-out avant-garde. For many sceptical viewers, however, this highbrow costume melodrama will come across as airless and academic"	NEU

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