This is How Movies Should Be Made

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

BALSAMO is a series about some thrilling 18th century French adventures; Marais plays Joseph Balsamo. In a word, it is perfectly, entirely enjoyable TV. BALSAMO also gave a taste of how might have been to love all those unusually awesome vamps—those classy, stylish ladies.I have seen this TV series when I was 13 and I remember enjoying it enormously—the excitement, the adventure, the eeriness of the depicted age, the handsome Marais, the beautiful women …. I am such a great fan of Marais and perhaps I should have spoken a lot more already about his movies—those worth watching—like BALSAMO and a melodrama with Danielle Darrieux and an action thriller like TRAIN D'ENFER--but I will make it up in the future.