The Black Book

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You can watch The Black Book (2018) on Hoopla with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.

The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from Lisbon to London, from Parma to Venice. Always followed in the shadows, for obscure reasons, by a suspicious-looking Calabrian and a troubling cardinal, they make us explore the dark intrigues of the Vatican, the pangs of a fatal passion, a gruesome duel, banter at the court of Versailles and the convulsions of the French Revolution.

Two orphans with shadowed pasts drift through the crumbling elegance of eighteenth-century Europe. Their restless journey from Rome to London finds beauty in the constant uncertainty of their identities.