![]() ![]() ![]() Watch The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec online using LOVEFiLM‘s streaming service. It never does, and remains wonderfully silly fun. This genre-bending pulp stew would collapse into a steaming pile of its own absurdity with just a single wrong note. And Besson gets the tone exactly right throughout. You know, the usual sort of Tuesday for a lady journalist and adventurer.īourgoin is an absolute delight as a woman surrounded by incompetents - the aforementioned unsavory companions, bumbling cops, and other guys who think their guyness automatically bestows awesomeness - and besotted would-be suitors who are not worthy of her, though they might be worthy of tagging along to assist her as things get even weirder. Which has hatched and is now terrorizing the city. She drags his mummy back to Paris… where her friend Professor Espérandieu (Jacky Nercessian) has already tested his “bringing the dead back to life” weird-science on a museum-exhibit pterodactyl egg. Perhaps Patmosis, physician to pharaoh Ramses II, might have discovered the something she needs. (It’s very Raiders of the Lost Ark, in the best way.) There’s something she needs - ancient wisdom magic even - to help her beloved sister, who is in a bad way in a way that is hilarious in its ridiculous wrongness. Desperate to cure her near catatonic sister, intrepid authoress Adèle Blanc-Sec braves ancient Egyptian tombs and modern Egyptian lowlife to locate a mummified doctor and get him back to Paris. There’s a treasure map, bien sûr, and unsavory companions who cannot be trusted because they’re after gold while all she seeks is knowledge. The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec. The year is 1911, and lady journalist and adventurer Adèle Blanc-Sec (the gorgeous Louise Bourgoin) is somewhere in an Arabian desert, breaking into a dusty tomb. You won’t be sorry.īased on the comic books by Jacques Tardi and adapted and directed by Luc Besson ( Taken), this is what comic-book movies look like when they’re not blown up into $200 million monstrosities: friendly and eldritch and kinda cosy even in the middle of outrageous escapades. See it anyway, even if you must resort to the small screen now that it has, at least, gotten a DVD/blu-ray release in the U.S. And the hero is a chick, which - if we’re to believe Hollywood - no one wants to see. It’s a shame this gloriously goofy French flick, from 2011, didn’t get a big-screen release in North America, because it is one of those juicy, chewy, pulpy adventures that is best appreciated flickering in the dark. (what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) I’m “biast” (pro): oo, a female adventurer! ![]()
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