French  movie & US version of The Killing


I enjoy swashbuckling, history and cleavage so I wandered out to see The Princess of Montpensier.    I can report that there's a shortage of breasts and swordplay.  The film has  a typically French preciousness without much sense of humor.  It's refined, it's about chaste love and it's oh so dull.


AMC's The Killing, a remake of a Danish mystery series, is sadly disappointing.  Not having seen the original, it's hard to say what was lost in translation.  The pacing is slow and the domestic and political  storylines that fill time between actual sleuthing are not compelling.   The show has a galling habit of dragging along and finally throwing in a twist before each ending.  
That bites.