Scott is in a hurry to move on to the next event. In “Napoleon,” we attend the coronation, but only for a while. The congregation snacked on chocolate, sausages, and bread: the popcorn of the revolutionary age. The ceremony began at midday and lasted at least three hours. That’s almost as long as Napoleon’s coronation, at Notre-Dame de Paris, in 1804.
The new movie from Ridley Scott, “Napoleon,” with Joaquin Phoenix in the title role, runs for two hours and thirty-eight minutes.
