I watched it on CCTV's eight sets of movies more than a decade ago, and I don't have one of my favorite movies. The male protagonist Angelo is a revolutionary fighting for the independence of the motherland, Italy, and fled to France to escape the pursuit of the Habsburg-Austro-Hungarian Empire, and met the female protagonist Marquise played by Binoche. They met in a small city where the epidemic was rampant, and together they traversed the vast mountains and wasteland of Provence, followed by adversity along the way, and jointly faced the selfishness and ugliness of human nature during the cholera period. There are no big ups and downs in the film, but it is romantic. In particular, the noble chivalry displayed by the male protagonist is the best portrayal of the magnificent European history in the nineteenth century. Watching this film, it is as if back to those nights when he was a teenager, a person quietly reading foreign masterpieces and novels, and his thoughts have already flown away from those romantic times. Such feelings are unspeakable. In the film, the heroic dedication to rural doctors, the hateful and sad revolutionary traitor, the old man who is greedy for money, the small city mayor with a big-nosed lover, and the selfish citizens are also very brilliant. They have watched it several times over the past ten years. I never feel boring in my early days to thirty-five and sixty.
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