The Three Kings

The Three Kings (Les Rois mages, 2001) — watch online on iFILM, a French fantasy comedy co-directed by Didier Bourdon and Bernard Campan, who also star alongside Pascal Légitimus as the three wise men themselves.

Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard are travelling to Bethlehem with their gifts when something goes cosmically wrong and they land two thousand years off schedule — in present-day Paris. The city has no particular interest in visiting magi. Traffic, strangers, total bewilderment. Virginie de Clausade plays Macha, a young Parisian woman the three kings decide must be their guide to the newborn Messiah, whether she agrees or not.

It's a gentle fish-out-of-water comedy that plays the premise straight enough to get laughs from the contrast alone. Not ambitious, but warm and cheerful throughout. Stream The Three Kings (2001) online on iFILM.