Period drama has a bad name, especially period drama drawn from literary classics, but there is a European tradition of grand historical films that match their sources’ canonical status with the ci…
takes as its text the novel by Honoré de Balzac, originally written as a serial between 1837 and 1843. A young aspiring poet arrives in Paris from the unspeakably unfashionable provincial town of Angoulème, hoping for recognition in the capital’s literary circle.
Lucien is lucky to meet the mercurial Lousteau , editor of a scurrilous journal of nominally liberal politics who gives him a job roasting writers he doesn’t like. Through him he meets Coralie , a low-rent actress who, like him, harbors higher ambitions and becomes his soulmate. He also joins the circle surrounding Dauriat , an illiterate former grocer who runs the most successful publishing house in Paris.
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