Review – Danton

Who knew the French Revolution was so boring? Director Andrzej Wajda puts together a fairly prosaic tale of the fussin’ and feudin’ between Georges Danton (Gerard Depardieu) and Robespierre (Wojciech Pszoniak), eventually leading to the arrest, trial and execution of the former. When something is actually happening, this is an interesting picture. Unfortunately, the bulk of the screen time is devoted to arguments over obscure revolutionary principles. Mildly amusing