King is Dancing (The)
Original Title
Le Roi Danse- Director: Gérard Corbiau
- Writer: Ève de Castro; Andrée Corbiau
- Producer: Helmut Breuer; Dominique Janne
CGiii Comment
From the director of the sumptuously inaccurate Farinelli.
Corbiau does it again - and, he does do it well.
An inaccurate, delicious feast.
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The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
Benoit Magimel as Louis XIV;
Boris Terral as Jean-Baptiste Lully;
Tcheky Karyo as Moliere;
Colette Emmanuelle as Anne d'Autriche;
Cecile Bois as Madeleine;
Claire Keim as Julie;
Johan Leysen as Cambert;
Idwig Stephane as Prince de Conti;
Emil Tarding as Louis XIV;
Jacques Francois as Cambefort;
Caroline Veyt as Armande Bejart;
Ingrid Rouif as Mme de Montespan;
Philippe Quercy as Mazuel;
Pierre Gerald as Boesset;
Claude Koener as Narrator of Ballet de la Nuit