THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV

THE DEATH OF LOUIS XIV

    Price: $395.00

    Code: 2616

    Directed by Albert Serra
    2016, 105 minutes
    Purchase $395

    Versailles, August 1715. Back from hunting, Louis XIV - magisterially interpreted by New Wave icon and honorary Palme d’Or recipient (Jean-Pierre Léaud) - feels pain in his leg. A serious fever erupts, which marks the beginning of the agony of the greatest King of France. Surrounded by a horde of doctors and his closest counselors who come in turns at his bedside sensing the impending power vacuum, the Sun King struggles to run the country from his bed.

    Based on extensive medical records and the memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon and other courtiers, The Death of Louis XIV is a wry neoclassical chamber drama, a work of pure magic by Albert Serra, one of today’s most singular directors.


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    Festivals & Awards

    Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival
    Official Selection - New York Film Festival
    Official Selection - Toronto International Film Festival
    Official Selection - Rotterdam
    Official Selection - BFI London Film Festival
    Official Selection - Viennale




    Reviews

    "A mesmerizing elegy."
    – Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

    "The most beautiful film at Cannes 2016."
    – Jonathan Romney, Sight and Sound

    "An instant classic."
    – Filmmaker Magazine

    "Serra has crafted a ravishing, darkly witty evocation of 18th-century aristocracy and a neoclassical period piece as reminiscent of the historical films of Visconti and Rossellini as the modernist literary adaptations of Rohmer and Oliveira."
    – Jordan Cronk, Film Comment


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