Fact-based historical nugget, set on a French-Canadian island off Newfoundland in the mid-19th Century, about the rehabilitation of a condemned murderer and the efforts of the islanders to save him from the guillotine. Solemn, sanctimonious, and simplistic: the almost universal change of heart toward the murderer is swift, undermotivated, and undramatized beyond a single-handed act of heroism to stop a runaway house-on-wheels -- but he's already in good graces by then. Trendy unsteady camera; trite desaturated color. With Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, and Yugoslav director Emir Kusturica as the condemned; directed by Patrice Leconte. (2000) — Duncan Shepherd
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