A Little Chaos (2014)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.39:1 117m
Director: Alan Rickman
Cast: Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Matthias Schoenaerts, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory
Synopsis:
A landscape gardener struggling with bereavement wins a contract to work with the master gardener on the grounds of Versailles. There she is instrumental in bringing human frailty to the perfection of the Sun King's ordered vision.
Review:
Rickman revisits the world of wounded womanhood that was the subject of his other directorial effort, The Winter Guest. The narrative may be sprinkled with a few too many felicitous contrivances, but the ease with which its Madame De Barra bewitches through her fragility and kindness is part of its charm; like the stranger in Never Gonna Snow Again, she brings a new way of looking at the world of nature. Winslet is excellent here, exuding warmth and tenderness, even if Schoenaerts is somewhat wasted as the ascetic whose heart she melts. There are plenty of cameos to keep one entertained, not least Rickman's Louis XIV, the screenplay is awash with the erudite application of language, but the wistful piano music grates anonymously: one hankers for Michael Nyman!
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.39:1 117m
Director: Alan Rickman
Cast: Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Matthias Schoenaerts, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory
Synopsis:
A landscape gardener struggling with bereavement wins a contract to work with the master gardener on the grounds of Versailles. There she is instrumental in bringing human frailty to the perfection of the Sun King's ordered vision.
Review:
Rickman revisits the world of wounded womanhood that was the subject of his other directorial effort, The Winter Guest. The narrative may be sprinkled with a few too many felicitous contrivances, but the ease with which its Madame De Barra bewitches through her fragility and kindness is part of its charm; like the stranger in Never Gonna Snow Again, she brings a new way of looking at the world of nature. Winslet is excellent here, exuding warmth and tenderness, even if Schoenaerts is somewhat wasted as the ascetic whose heart she melts. There are plenty of cameos to keep one entertained, not least Rickman's Louis XIV, the screenplay is awash with the erudite application of language, but the wistful piano music grates anonymously: one hankers for Michael Nyman!
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.39:1 117m
Director: Alan Rickman
Cast: Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Matthias Schoenaerts, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory
Synopsis:
A landscape gardener struggling with bereavement wins a contract to work with the master gardener on the grounds of Versailles. There she is instrumental in bringing human frailty to the perfection of the Sun King's ordered vision.
Review:
Rickman revisits the world of wounded womanhood that was the subject of his other directorial effort, The Winter Guest. The narrative may be sprinkled with a few too many felicitous contrivances, but the ease with which its Madame De Barra bewitches through her fragility and kindness is part of its charm; like the stranger in Never Gonna Snow Again, she brings a new way of looking at the world of nature. Winslet is excellent here, exuding warmth and tenderness, even if Schoenaerts is somewhat wasted as the ascetic whose heart she melts. There are plenty of cameos to keep one entertained, not least Rickman's Louis XIV, the screenplay is awash with the erudite application of language, but the wistful piano music grates anonymously: one hankers for Michael Nyman!