Few period films feel as contemporary as Patrice Leconte's latest offering. Because though the story takes place in 1850 on a remote French-owned island off the Canadian coast, the themes are universal and timeless. In its scenes of uninhibited love-making and its argument against capital punishment, La Veuve De Saint-Pierre exhibits a passion that blasts the dust from your typical costume drama's corsets.
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