Watching: The Reveries of the Solitary Revenant

Overview

At the age of ten, a young Napoleon Bonaparte thinks his parents are finally coming to take him away from the terrible school where he is being bullied. But because he has been skipping classes while waiting, he is now locked in the vacant dovecote on the French estate as punishment. What begins as a coping with a lack of affection and his own loneliness spills over into an escape into poetic reverie; associative scenes that expose his deeply held feelings.