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
DVD Reviews of Le Roi Danse (Original French Version with English Subtitles)
DVD Review: Louis XIV's mother
Summary: 1 Stars
The principal review states Louis XIV's mother was a Medici. Louis XIV's mother was Anne of Austria (married to Louis XIII). She was a Spanish Hapsburg, not a Medici. His wife was Marie-Th?r?se, also a Spanish Hapsburg and niece to Anne of Austria. Henri IV was married to Marie de Medici (Louis' grandmother and mother to Louis XIII) and Catherine de Medici's was Henri II's wife (mother of 3 kings, and mother-in-law for a time of Henri IV).
This may have been changed to fiction for purposes of the DVD, but I am just now ordering it, so do not know.
DVD Review: Exquisite Music, Dancing and Costumes
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased this DVD after seeing a preview featured on another DVD. I was fascinated by the quality of the production and the shear extravagance of the sets and costumes. How much of the story is factual I don't know; probably very little. How much interaction there was between Louis XIV, Lully and Moli?re can only be guessed. However, treated as fiction this film is a wondrous tale of how a working-class musician (Lully) gets involved with the King of France and will do almost anything to keep in his good graces
Having visited the Palace of Versailles myself, I was a little disappointed that the only views of the completed building are of the Galerie des Glaces as the principal performers walk into the credits at the very end of the movie.
DVD 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.
DVD Review: Simplified but still really good
Summary: 4 Stars
Louis XIV was the most capable monarch of his, or perhaps any, generation. The artistic grandeur of his court is legendary. The film, like most about La Grand Monarch, is rather simplistic. However the performances, musically and dramatically, are well worth the viewing. Do not bother with the English dubbed version. The original French is best. Just remember that Lully was only one in a thousand important relationships Louis had in his 70+ years on the throne.DVD Review: a couple of problems
Summary: 3 Stars
In order to understand the movie, one has to be quite familiar with French history, especially during the reign of Louis XIV, including the background information on Lully, Robert Cambert, Moliere, Prince de Conti; otherwise, the plot and conversation could be very confusing. One of my biggest problems with this movie is that many characters were cast TOO OLD! Cambert (1628-1677) was only 4 years older than Lully (1632-1687), and yet the actor who played Cambert looks old enough to be the father of Boris Terral (who played Lully) and actually was already 50 year old when the film was shot! The actor who played "Prince de Conti" was already 56 while his character should be a twentyish or thirtyish young man! Same with Moliere. Couldn't the director find some younger French-speaking acotrs?
But if you like French Baroque music and court dance, then this movie might be for you.
Description 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.General DVDs
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