Le Roi Danse (Original French Version with English Subtitles)
by G?rard Corbiau
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Director: G?rard CorbiauPrimary Contributor: Beno?t Magimel
Primary Contributor: Boris Terral
Primary Contributor: Tch?ky Karyo
Primary Contributor: Colette Emmanuelle
Primary Contributor: C?cile Bois
Primary Contributor: Claire Keim
Primary Contributor: Johan Leysen
Primary Contributor: Idwig Stephane
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Unknown); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Import, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 114 minutes
Published: 2000
Movie Reviews of Le Roi Danse (Original French Version with English Subtitles)
Movie Review: Like college freshmen corousing
Summary: 2 Stars
We previously got the sound track, which was wonderful.
We were hoping to see some dancing, but there was very little and very strange. We got to see some acrobatic exhibition dance, but none of the french court dance, which everyone at the court was expected to do well.
It's impossible to believe that people would behave in such a frantic and out of control manner in the French court. No manner how talented they were.
There are many unbelievable things. For example, female singing roles were still played by young men with high voices. Didn't the director remember the movie Farinelli, which he himself directed?
Very disappointing, and we had such high hopes.
Summary of Le Roi Danse (Original French Version with English Subtitles)
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.Art House & International DVD Video
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