If you like romance dramas, specifically costume dramas with intense young protagonists, you really need to watch Horseman on the Roof. It's one of my favorites. Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez are so beautiful it's a little distracting, but in a good way. Olivier Martinez is never this good again. As a proper, chivalrous gentleman hussard, he may be the most romantic figure ever out of France. Juliette Binoche is so young here, and a heart breaker.
The time is France during the 1832 cholera outbreak. Dead bodies are piling up, the military is evacuating towns and then quarantining people in the woods. It's a perfect time to fall in love, right?
The costumes and sets and cinematography are tops.
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