Maravillosa Angélica

the fragile young lady becomes a business woman, part of politic affairs, beautiful, powerful, sentimental, looking the justice and example of high courage. nothing new. only the old traits becomes more interesting. adventure. and love. that was the source of seduction of entire series for a generation of young viewers for who Mercier was a kind of goddess. the short presence of Jean La Fontaine , the references to the Fronde are small pieces who gives some credibility to a story who has not many occasions to be realistic. but that is not a sin. because it reflects only the fictionally atmosphere of a century, lovely, cruel, mysterious, and propose a charming character who, as woman, could be more interesting for admirers of fairy tales.

Well, I'm from central Europe and the Angelique-films have been a part of the life of everyone here, since the very beginning. The Slovak TV shows it every year and I can't actually imagine not seeing it at least once a year :) It is a perfect mixture of simple, yet great story,love, drama, adventure and history at the same time. Besides, dazzling costumes and settings, beautiful music of Michel Magne and great acting of all the cast (especially Michele Mercier, Robert Hossein and Jean-Louis Trintignant are brilliant) make all of these films a great pleasure to watch. So, when you need to escape from the grey reality, get these films and fly away to a place where courage,bravery and above all love were the heart and soul of everybody's life. Maybe you'll find there what is missing a bit in the world today...

This was the first Angelique movie that I watched or attempted to watch, and it will be the last.

The description of this alleged heroin as an intelligent and strong willed with a purpose. But the scripting comes off as a airheaded blonde that falls for the first man who comes her way.

First it was the fake eye patch wearing Neanderthal, followed by the poor poet without a penny to his name. And all this white leaving her two young boys in harms way.

Weak plot, over acting from F movie has-beens and let's not even bring up the clownish fight choreography.

Angelique makes Emmanuelle softcore porn somewhat bearable.

That's Angelique's route.The title of the Golon's novel was "le chemin de Versailles"(=Versailles route).And like the other movies of this famous -in France- saga,it does not do the book any justice.Once again,the Golons ' depictions were often first-class,mainly in the first chapters which dealt with the notorious "Cour des Miracles" (also depicted by Victor Hugo in "Notre-Dame de Paris" (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame)).Their work was cheapened and watered-down by the screenwriters ,giving a romantic flavor to Nicolas' character (who in the book is a crude brute),and avoiding many a "horrible" line.For instance ,the fighting in Saints-Innocents charnel house -where the Belles de Paris used to come during the day to do some shopping among the skulls and the bones-is nowhere to be seen on the screen.

This is fairly entertaining swashbucklers adventures,a genre that was at its (commercial) peak in France circa 1960 thanks to actor Jean Marais ("le bossu","le capitan" "le miracle des loups")but was on the wane after 1965."Angélique was,all in all,the last hurrah(so to speak).

This is the next aligned to the Angelica series. There is workmanship shown throughout this , namely the sets, and also the main theme is very immense suiting the movie's intended tone, lots of dire situations interspersed with light party carnival like scenes. By this movie she already gets like two other guys after the previous movie and one of them is offed just like the previous ones , a joke probably by the movie makers at this point of the fates of all her guys. I have to note this movie is actually a lighter toned one as far as sequels go because things are not as dire as in the original movie, but that is even hinted in the subtitle 'road to Versailles.' As for my review title, baguettes are tasty. With some iced tea.