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This is not to say that they are even half as compelling or as funny as Shakespeare’s amorously addled lovers, or that they have the outsize personalities and drives of ancient deities. They’re more like pretty children playing woodland games of hide-and-seek while in the throes of extreme puppy love. The film, based on a novel by Honoré d’Urfé written in the 17th century and set in fifth-century Gaul, is staged as an outdoor pageant in the attractive French countryside. An unseen narrator pushes the story along. In this bucolic never-never land, the actors engage in stress-free agricultural pursuits and spend much of their time debating philosophies of love. As the story begins, the idyllic passion of Astrea (Stéphanie Crayencour), a beautiful shepherdess, and Celadon (Andy Gillet), an androgynously handsome shepherd,... [read full story]
