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Home » Streaming Service » Netflix » La Révolution review – the rich literally eat the poor in Netflix’s new revisionist historical drama
Anyone looking for a proper unpacking of one of human history’s most consequential revolutions will be left wanting, but anyone looking for history as an excuse for zombie-adjacent genre fun will be most pleased with La Révolution.
Anyone looking for a proper unpacking of one of human history’s most consequential revolutions will be left wanting, but anyone looking for history as an excuse for zombie-adjacent genre fun will be most pleased with La Révolution.
This review of La Révolution is spoiler-free.
Mileage will no doubt vary when it comes to Aurélien Molas’s eight-hour historical drama La Révolution , now streaming on Netflix. Anyone looking for a proper, mature, nuanced examination of the French Revolution as an anarchic and far-reaching consequence of aristocratic tyranny and class disparity is going to be disappointed. But anyone looking for a good excuse to revise history into a fist-pumping nationalistic allegory for contemporary inequality with a sprinkling of occultism is going to have a jolly old time. I know what I was looking for, and I’m (mostly) happy with what I got.
None of this is to understate the importance of the French Revolution or the dangers of boiling away the nuances of history in service of speculative genre fiction, but you can always read a book, you know? La Révolution is much more concerned with being a handsome-looking bit of agitprop mostly concerned with cool fights and schlocky ideas, and I’m pretty much okay with that. It’s set in 1787, a couple of years before the start of the revolution proper, mostly in and around the French county of Montagris, and concerns the intersecting lives of Élise de Montargis (Marilou Aussilloux), a sympathetic noblewoman, and Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (Amir El Kacem), eventual inventor of the guillotine, who is investigating a series of murders that are connected to a mysterious virus. All of this will eventually lead to revolution by way of supernatural discoveries and conspiracies, with the vampire and zombie-adjacent developments working nicely enough as a metaphor for enormous wealth disparity and a funny inversion of the idea of eating the rich.
None of this is subtle or particularly interested in being clever; you can’t have your show’s plot points include literal blue blood, immortality via occultism, and an insatiable hunger for human flesh and still expect the well-known historical aristocrats being depicted to get thoughtful biographies. It’s a grandiose and profoundly silly bit of revisionist-history-as-metaphor with all the facile pleasures of uncomplicated genre tropes and excellent production design courtesy of a trio of cinematographers (Mathieu Plainfossé, Martial Schmeltz, and Antoine Sanier). There are a whole bunch of visually-striking moments and deliberately anachronistic flourishes that help to create a stylish if otherworldly effect and docking points from La Révolution for taking liberties with history feels like criticizing a supercar for taking liberties with fuel.
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Home » Streaming Service » Netflix » La Révolution review – the rich literally eat the poor in Netflix’s new revisionist historical drama
Anyone looking for a proper unpacking of one of human history’s most consequential revolutions will be left wanting, but anyone looking for history as an excuse for zombie-adjacent genre fun will be most pleased with La Révolution.
Anyone looking for a proper unpacking of one of human history’s most consequential revolutions will be left wanting, but anyone looking for history as an excuse for zombie-adjacent genre fun will be most pleased with La Révolution.
This review of La Révolution is spoiler-free.
Mileage will no doubt vary when it comes to Aurélien Molas’s eight-hour historical drama La Révolution , now streaming on Netflix. Anyone looking for a proper, mature, nuanced examination of the French Revolution as an anarchic and far-reaching consequence of aristocratic tyranny and class disparity is going to be disappointed. But anyone looking for a good excuse to revise history into a fist-pumping nationalistic allegory for contemporary inequality with a sprinkling of occultism is going to have a jolly old time. I know what I was looking for, and I’m (mostly) happy with what I got.
None of this is to understate the importance of the French Revolution or the dangers of boiling away the nuances of history in service of speculative genre fiction, but you can always read a book, you know? La Révolution is much more concerned with being a handsome-looking bit of agitprop mostly concerned with cool fights and schlocky ideas, and I’m pretty much okay with that. It’s set in 1787, a couple of years before the start of the revolution proper, mostly in and around the French county of Montagris, and concerns the intersecting lives of Élise de Montargis (Marilou Aussilloux), a sympathetic noblewoman, and Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (Amir El Kacem), eventual inventor of the guillotine, who is investigating a series of murders that are connected to a mysterious virus. All of this will eventually lead to revolution by way of supernatural discoveries and conspiracies, with the vampire and zombie-adjacent developments working nicely enough as a metaphor for enormous wealth disparity and a funny inversion of the idea of eating the rich.
None of this is subtle or particularly interested in being clever; you can’t have your show’s plot points include literal blue blood, immortality via occultism, and an insatiable hunger for human flesh and still expect the well-known historical aristocrats being depicted to get thoughtful biographies. It’s a grandiose and profoundly silly bit of revisionist-history-as-metaphor with all the facile pleasures of uncomplicated genre tropes and excellent production design courtesy of a trio of cinematographers (Mathieu Plainfossé, Martial Schmeltz, and Antoine Sanier). There are a whole bunch of visually-striking moments and deliberately anachronistic flourishes that help to create a stylish if otherworldly effect and docking points from La Révolution for taking liberties with history feels like criticizing a supercar for taking liberties with fuel.
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This recap of La Revolution season 1, episode 8, "Chapter Eight -- The Rebellion", contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these words. You probably don’t need me to tell you this, but no – it doesn’t end properly. This is basically a…
This recap of La Revolution season 1, episode 4, "Chapter Four -- The Executioners", contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these words. The word of the day is “hunger”. This, you see, is the curse of the blue-bloods. You might get superhuman…
This recap of La Revolution season 1, episode 6, "Chapter Six -- The Alliance", contains spoilers. You can check out our thoughts on the previous episode by clicking these words. La Revolution episode 6 opens with a scene that I truly think would have been great had Donatien not been…
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A prostitute waits for customers along a road of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, August 28, 2013.
REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
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A prostitute waits for customers along a road of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
A prostitute waits for customers along a road of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
Prostitutes wait for customers along a road of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
Prostitutes wait for customers along a road of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
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A sex worker activist attends a demonstration with prostitutes against a proposal to scrap sanctions on soliciting and instead punish prostitutes' customers with fines in Paris, November 29, 2013. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
Prostitutes wait for customers along a road of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
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A sex worker activist attends a demonstration with prostitutes against a proposal to scrap sanctions on soliciting and instead punish prostitutes' customers with fines in Paris, November 29, 2013. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
A sex worker activist attends a demonstration with prostitutes against a proposal to scrap sanctions on soliciting and instead punish prostitutes' customers with fines in Paris, November 29, 2013. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
Sex workers attend a protest demonstration after French deputies voted for a reform of prostitution law in Paris, December 4, 2013. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen
Sex workers attend a protest demonstration after French deputies voted for a reform of prostitution law in Paris, December 4, 2013. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen
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Sex workers stand behind a banner which reads, "Social Rights for sex professionals" as they attend a protest demonstration after French deputies voted for a reform of prostitution law in Paris, December 4, 2013. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen
Sex workers stand behind a banner which reads, "Social Rights for sex professionals" as they attend a protest demonstration after French deputies voted for a reform of prostitution law in Paris, December 4, 2013. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen
Prostitutes wait for customers along a road of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
Prostitutes wait for customers along a road of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
A prostitute waits for customers along a road of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
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People attend a demonstration to abolish prostitution in France in front the National Assembly in Paris, November 29, 2013.
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A prostitute waits for customers along a road of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
A prostitute waits for customers along a road of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, August 28, 2013. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann
A sex worker activist attends a demonstration with prostitutes against a proposal to scrap sanctions on soliciting and instead punish prostitutes' customers with fines, in Paris, November 29, 2013. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
A sex worker activist attends a demonstration with prostitutes against a proposal to scrap sanctions on soliciting and instead punish prostitutes' customers with fines, in Paris, November 29, 2013. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
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