included · Cosmic
The Three Kings
The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where they encounter a young woman called Macha who, they are convinced, will lead them to the newborn Messiah.
Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Before you choose
What kind of time-travel story is this?
Time travel is an important premise, with limited sustained exploration.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Cosmic.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
Confirmed 6/10: on the way to the manger, the three Magi are pulled through a time rift into 2001 and regroup in Paris, where they meet modern counterparts of Mary, Joseph and Herod. The displacement drives the anachronism farce, but once there the comedy rarely engages time itself.
A space-time warp carries the Magi into 2001; the synopsis also frames their displacement as miraculous.
Check the supporting sources ↓An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.
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The scores
Weighted archive score
high confidence
Aggregate source ratings
How Titan works
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]
This film: 50.09 base × 48.8% weighting.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
The evidence
Research & sources
Research notes may reveal plot details.
These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.
Cast: Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan, Pascal Légitimus, Virginie de Clausade, Nathalie Roussel
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