movie: Cartouche

I just watched Cartouche, a 1960s French swashbuckler about an 18th century bandit, Louis Dominique Bourguignon. Dominique himself was real, but I suspect the story was highly fictionalized. (I know little about the real guy.)

For the most part, I thought it was pretty fun, aside from an annoying love triangle that sometimes made it hard for me to like Dominique (Also, were we really supposed to believe that a guy who had Venus would have that many problems making up his mind?  I also found his interest in the other woman so hard to buy into even apart from Venus that I genuinely thought he was faking it and it was some plot for parts of the movie.) and then I got to the end, which was just as bad as I was warned.

( spoilers )