It was interesting to see a film about Versailles actually in FRENCH, not the warmed-over English versions that are so common. Interesting look at the priorities of the nobility. Overall worth your while if pre-revolutionary France is your thing.
Albert Delpy,
Bernard Dheran,
Bernard Giraudeau,
Bruno Zanardi,
Carlo Brandt
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This is a French costume drama from director Patrice Leconte that recalls both Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and Restoration (1995). Gregoire Ponceludon de Malavoy (Charles Berling) is a baron of the 18th...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 13, 2004
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May 2, 2006
This is not that bad, but somehow, i didn't enjoy it as much as i should have considering the director and the cast. I always felt like there was something missing. I'll give it another go one of these days, maybe i'll see it in a diferent light.
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September 10, 2008
want to see this because it won best foreign film with NBR and best Foreign film from BAFTA
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April 19, 2007
Fanny Ardant interprète peut-être à merveille la comtesse de Blayac, il n'en demeure pas moins que j'ai été un peu déçu par ce film que l'on me vantait depuis des lustres. Leconte dépeint les moeurs et les habitudes bourgeoises de manière assez cocasse et nous offre une assez rid...( read more)
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April 5, 2007
I love Fanny Ardant...she is beautiful and plays an evil seductress very well! The rest of the movie was pretty good, witty but subtitled. Nice costuming, good examples of pre-Revolutionary French mens wear.
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