Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV

Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV, La (1966)

Rating: 7.4/10
Runtime: 95
Language: French
Country: France
Color: Color

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Director: Roberto Rossellini
Cast:
Jean-Marie Patte ... King Louis XIV
Raymond Jourdan ... Jean Baptiste Colbert
Silvagni ... Cardinal Mazarin
Katharina Renn ... Anne d'Autriche
Dominique Vincent ... Madame Du Plessis
Pierre Barrat ... Nicolas Fouquet
Fernand Fabre ... Michel Le Tellier
Françoise Ponty ... Louise de la Vallière
Joëlle Laugeois ... Marie-Thérèse
Maurice Barrier ... D'Artagnan
André Dumas ... Le Père Joly
François Mirante ... M. de Brienne
Pierre Spadoni ... Noni
Roger Guillo ... L'apothicaire
Louis Raymond ... Le premier médecin

Description: Filmmaking legend Roberto Rossellini brings his passion for realism and unerring eye for the everyday to this portrait of the early years of the reign of France’s “Sun King,” and in the process reinvents the costume drama. The death of chief minister Cardinal Mazarin, the construction of the palace at Versailles, the extravagant meals of the royal court: all are recounted with the same meticulous quotidian detail that Rossellini brought to his contemporary portraits of postwar Italy. The Taking of Power by Louis XIV dares to place a larger-than-life figure at the level of mere mortal.

1661: Cardinal Mazarin dies. In the power vacuum, the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Surintendant who's been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power; he overplays his hand, offering a bribe to Louis's mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed. Years later, in a coda, we see Louis exercising the power of the sun.

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