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The Emperor's New Clothes

2001 · 107 min

A wry, bittersweet historical what-if that trades battlefields for domestic comedy and quiet identity crises.

Directed by
Alan Taylor
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Tagline
The world's most powerful man is about to fight his greatest battle... between love and glory.
Overview
Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.

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Directed by
Alan Taylor
Genres
Comedy, Drama
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • love
  • class
  • deception
  • redemption
Places
  • big city
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour5
Realism7
Romance5
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Alan Taylor
Written by
Alan Taylor, Herbie Wave, Kevin Molony
Starring
Ian Holm, Iben Hjejle, Tim McInnerny, Nigel Terry, Eddie Marsan, Tom Watson, Hugh Bonneville, Murray Melvin
Music
Rachel Portman
Cinematography
Alessio Gelsini Torresi
Runtime
107 min
Country
Germany, Italy, United Kingdom
Languages
English

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