8 thoughts on “TBT: Alatriste (2006): the Good, the Great, the Bad, and the Ugly

  1. If you are on a 17th century Spanish dress quest, you could add la Folie des Grandeurs, a classic swashbuckle French film set at the Spanish Court with a mix of 1960’s bouffants and surprisingly good huge court dresses and hairstyle à la Velazquez!

  2. There is a recent publication on Spanish dress at the court of Velasquez by Amanda Wunder (?) (Yale University Press) and she just gave a talk at FIT (I was unable to go) but they said it will be posted to their YouTube channel … just FYI.

      1. I was just going to mention that book too! There are also two episodes on the Dressed podcast about it. The book is Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velazquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV. This is about the tailor responsible for the dresses in Velazquez’ iconic paintings. Truly fascinating!

  3. As a reenactor of the period the movie is somehow a mixed bag.

    The novel obviously is a “Three Musketeers for Wannabes” … you should not think too much about plausibility.

    The movie tries to press the whole story in a single film, which results in some extreme jumps and too long scenes on the other hand. Costumes and equipment from OK to really bad such as the modern shirt of Mortensen…

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