Tag: Yorick van Wageningen

Papillon drags on a half hour longer than necessary but will inevitably draw people to compare the film to the 1973 original if they’ve seen it. We’re transported back in time to 1931 Paris where Henri “Papillon” Charrière (Charlie Hunnam) has stolen a number of diamonds for mobster Castili (Christopher Fairbank).  He makes one pivotal mistake and the filmmakers really stress this through the camera framing.  He hands a diamond necklace to his girlfriend, Nenette (Eve Hewson).  So…