Newman is a charming, Robin Hood-style thief in turn-of-the-century Paris
He meets Loren in a bordello, where she works as a laundress, and they fall in love
Then he joins an underground revolutionary movement in Switzerland, and plans to assassinate a prince; in the meantime Loren meets a lord (David Niven), who offers to save Newman from the police if she will marry him
She makes an arrangement whereby she can have both mena bizarre ménage-à-trois that lasts for decades
Witty, elegant, stylishly photographed in color, and beautifully detailed in sets and costumes, the film is entertaining moving from the dignified to the eccentric, from full seriousness to a rather crazy way, from sentiment to cynicism, from nostalgic romanticism to anti-romantic parody
Witty, elegant, stylishly photographed in color, and beautifully detailed in sets and costumes, the film is entertaining moving from the dignified to the eccentric, from full seriousness to a rather crazy way, from sentiment to cynicism, from nostalgic romanticism to anti-romantic parody