The King Is Dancing

Regissert av Gérard Corbiau
6. desember 2000    1t, 55m    Kinoinntekter : 3 203 USDDrama, History,
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Corbiau repeats the Farinelli formula, artistic rivalry and social private drama expressed in dazzling, sometimes excessively lavish baroque scenery, music and costume, but this time in its ultimate setting: Versailles. There are two protagonists - first the title character, Louis XIV, the French sun-king who has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer (like Nero wrote and performed musical poetry), and starts asserting himself against the entourage of his Medici mother, the regent during his minority, by building his palace complex and launching a 'fitting' new, mainly musical display of baroque show. Secondly the musical genius Gianbattista Lulli ('Jean-Baptiste') Lully, a Florentine upstart of unbridled ambition, quickly gains the king's absolute trust, despite the nationalist and aristocratic opposition to a low-born Italian, and thus turns the normally socially humble post of court composer into a 'ministerial portfolio of culture' of Cabinet rank, complete with a monopoly which kills of his artistic rivals in operatic theater. The script also weaves a complex web of court scheming for individual power and social interests, and even a sadistic but accidental murder on a young valet, producing a sensuous and sumptuous drama too complex for this format, ending in a freakish but fatal accident. Louis XIV's mother was Ana de Austria (in French, Anne d' Autriche), the daughter of one of the Hapsburgh Kings of Spain. Maria di Medici (in French, Marie de Médicis) was his grandmother, his father's mother. She was dead before Louis XIV reached the throne. Please correct the reference to "his Medici mother"

Hvor å se The King Is Dancing

  • Benoît MagimelLouis XIV
  • Boris TerralJean-Baptiste Lully
  • Tchéky KaryoMolière
  • Colette EmmanuelleAnne d'Autriche
  • Cécile BoisMadeleine
  • Claire KeimJulie
  • Johan LeysenCambert
  • Idwig StephanePrince de Conti
  • Emil TardingLouis XIV (14 Years Old)
  • Jacques FrançoisCambefort
  • Caroline VeytArmande Béjart
  • Ingrid RouifMme de Montespan
  • Pierre Gérald
  • Claude Koener
  • Serge Feuillard
  • Philippe QuercyMazuel
  • Charlotte Boimare
  • Gérard CorbiauRegissør / Manusforfatter
  • Didier DecoinManusforfatter
  • Ève de CastroManusforfatter

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