"Madame DuBarry" is a German film from 1919 and the fact that it will have its 100th anniversary 3 years from now tells you of course that it is a silent black-and-white movie. At 80 minutes, it is nowhere near the longest or shortest films from that era, somewhere in-between. The director is Ernst Lubitsch and the two lead actors are Pola Negri and Academy Award winner Emil Jannings, a trio of big stars from back in the day and the supporting cast also includes many very successful and prolific actors. So there was certainly a nice possibility that this film could turn out well, but for me it did not. The reason may be that I did not find this era in French history interesting at all and also that I am not the biggest fan of black-and-white silent films. If you think differently about the days of Louis XV or the days of Lang, Pabst and Murnau, then you may have a great time watching this one. pay attention to how the original language of this film is German, but of course this only refers to the intertitles as there is no spoken language in here as I already stated. Overall, I felt the story was not compelling enough at all, not even for a movie that stays easily under the 90-minute mark, so unless you belong to some of the groups I mentioned earlier, I recommend you to watch something else instead.
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