Well, blimey: boning sure does play a big part in this biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte. Perhaps weary of the fact that Spielberg is readying his seven-part HBO series based on Stanley Kubrick’s infamous script – not to mention Abel Gance’s 330-minute silent eponymous 1927 epic, 1967’s seven-hour War And Peace and plenty of others – Ridley Scott has gone for a different flavour: two and a half hours that could, and maybe should, be titled Napoleon et Joséphine. Or maybe even just Joséphine.
