Bourbons A-go-go

Rating: 5/10 (28 January 2012)

This film should have been SO MUCH better, what with the lavish costumes and scenery (which truly rate a 10)and the obviously huge budget available. I don't know what idiot decided that rockabilly went along with the aristocratic indulgences of the 1780s, but someone should have rolled up a script and rapped him/her sharply on the nose. The music is jarring and would be considered badly sang/performed in a film of any genre. I found myself muting many scenes because of the horrid score. The acting is not below par, it's the script that often fails the actors. It does however show, accurately I think, the detachment of the royals and other assorted nobility from the lives of the ordinary folk who would eventually rise up and have all their heads on a pike. It is worth a watch for those who are interested in the remarkable costuming of the period, and the careless decadence of those who were arrayed in such garments while their nation literally starved.