Synopsis
Napoleon and Me (N - Io e Napoleone, 2006) is an Italian period comedy you can watch online on iFILM. The setting is Elba in 1814, where a hot-headed young schoolteacher named Martino despises the deposed emperor — and is then ordered to run his library and transcribe his memoirs.
Martino takes the job with murder on his mind. Day after day, sorting papers and listening to the exile talk, he meets not the monster from the pamphlets but a tired, vain, surprisingly funny man. Daniel Auteuil plays Napoleon; Monica Bellucci is the baroness Martino loves, and a young Elio Germano rounds out the cast under director Paolo Virzì.
Virzì shrinks a giant of history down to a private, almost domestic joke: the boy who set out to end a legend ends up sketching its portrait instead. It's a light, talky costume film for viewers who like their history wry rather than grand. Stream Napoleon and Me (2006) online on iFILM.
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