The first trailer for this sweeping saga of the rose and fall of Bonaparte features Vanessa Kirby and Ian McNeice (thought it was Rupert Everett as the Duke of Wellington, or is he George III?)…and a performance that I guess will grow on me and everybody else. Because Joaquin Phoenix is affecting but very much against the grain in how Napoleon is traditionally portrayed.

Thanksgiving, we all learn “La Marseillaise,” and the limits of ego and power and “genius.”