Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace
Seen it?2019 | 91 min | Documentary, History
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With a box office flop and almost no lasting buzz, this one could be a tough watch. Keep your phone handy.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for the curious and history buffs.
- The mood
- Eye-opening.
- The pace
- Moves along nicely, at 1 hr 31 min.
- What might put you off
- It's in French, so expect subtitles (or a dub).
Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV's vanished Versailles. Versailles was an ongoing building site at the time of Louis XIV and continued to be transformed by its successive occupants later on. The Versailles we know today only vaguely resembles the Versailles of the Sun King. Most of its original features and apartments no longer exist. Thanks to the digitisation of thousands of plans, a team of scientists takes us back in time to explore this forgotten past in a new way, through a large-scale reconstruction project to bring back the Versailles of Louis XIV as he designed it, according to his requirements and dreams.
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Cast & crew
Directed by Marc Jampolsky
- Jean-Noël MartinLouis XIV vieux
- Delphine BechetoilleReine Marie-Thérèse
- Bertrand ChameroisNicodème Tessin
- Clara CireraDame d'honneur
- Anouchka CsernakovaAnne d'Autriche
- Charles DurotMarquis de Sourde
- Alice GozlanLa Dauphine
- Donat GuibertCharles Perrault (as Guibert Donat)
- Douglas JouishommeLouis XIV
- Emmanuel MénardCourtisan parlant (as Emmanuel Menard)