Blanche

People tend to idealise distant historical eras as times that were in some way more innocent, simpler, kinder and gentler than our time. In reality, people then had much bigger problems than they have today. And some of the issues that they had to deal with it are conspicuously similar to certain issues of our times. Or, at least this is what Bernie Bonvoisin, author of 2002 French period comedy *Blanche* tries to c…