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Review title: Great art direction, little else
Product review: Gerard Depardieu plays a steward of a French Prince who must win the favor of King Louis IV by lavishing him with amazingly extravagant banquets. Uma Thurman and Tim Roth join Depardieu in sleepwalking through their uninspiring performances, delivered in English despite being based on actual events in French history. The art direction during the banquets is very impressive, but there is little else of interest in this tale of aristocratic decadence and trickery. The only extra on the DVD is a very short piece supposedly (but hardly actually) about the film's costumes. This is one DVD that could definitely benefit from the typical extras such as a commentary track to help us get a notion as to why the film was ever produced. Fans of period costume pieces should watch ones with more substance such as Moulin Rouge, Shakespeare in Love, or Rob Roy.
