Monsieur N.

Not to be confused with THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES (2001), the light-hearted, similarly-themed adventure about Napoleon's life after his exile to the remote Atlantic isle of St. Helena, this thriller from Antoine de Caunes is a far darker affair. Rather than speculate on the possibility of Napoleon's escape from Longwood House, his island prison, de Caunes addresses the long-held theory that old Boney may have in fact been murdered. The film opens with the spooky exhumation of a long-dead body — Napoleon's, presumably — that will open the inquest into whether death was indeed the result of natural causes or, as some have come to suspect, poison. The answer begins with...