La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV (1966)
(The Rise of Louis XIV)
Country: FR
Technical: Eastmancolor 100m
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Cast: Jean-Michel Patte, Raymond Jourdan, Silvagni, Katharine Renn
Synopsis:
Mazarin dies leaving the king a vast fortune, and the young monarch takes Colbert's advice, arrests Fouquet, and institutes a new style of government whereby both aristocracy and moneylending bourgeoisie feel they must remain in the orbit of the sun king.
Review:
True to his realist origins, Rossellini casts unknowns and directs this stately and talkative piece of political historiography as if furnishing a reconstruction for some television documentary. Without the benefit of such authorial guidance, we are left very much to assess the young head of state on the evidence, allowing for apparent inconsistency, indulgence, callousness and undoubted acumen while secure in the knowledge that he was to be the last great French king. Thus he sets new standards in dress and displays uncommon fastidiousness in eating but successfully averts a recurrence of 'la Fronde'.
(The Rise of Louis XIV)
Country: FR
Technical: Eastmancolor 100m
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Cast: Jean-Michel Patte, Raymond Jourdan, Silvagni, Katharine Renn
Synopsis:
Mazarin dies leaving the king a vast fortune, and the young monarch takes Colbert's advice, arrests Fouquet, and institutes a new style of government whereby both aristocracy and moneylending bourgeoisie feel they must remain in the orbit of the sun king.
Review:
True to his realist origins, Rossellini casts unknowns and directs this stately and talkative piece of political historiography as if furnishing a reconstruction for some television documentary. Without the benefit of such authorial guidance, we are left very much to assess the young head of state on the evidence, allowing for apparent inconsistency, indulgence, callousness and undoubted acumen while secure in the knowledge that he was to be the last great French king. Thus he sets new standards in dress and displays uncommon fastidiousness in eating but successfully averts a recurrence of 'la Fronde'.
(The Rise of Louis XIV)
Country: FR
Technical: Eastmancolor 100m
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Cast: Jean-Michel Patte, Raymond Jourdan, Silvagni, Katharine Renn
Synopsis:
Mazarin dies leaving the king a vast fortune, and the young monarch takes Colbert's advice, arrests Fouquet, and institutes a new style of government whereby both aristocracy and moneylending bourgeoisie feel they must remain in the orbit of the sun king.
Review:
True to his realist origins, Rossellini casts unknowns and directs this stately and talkative piece of political historiography as if furnishing a reconstruction for some television documentary. Without the benefit of such authorial guidance, we are left very much to assess the young head of state on the evidence, allowing for apparent inconsistency, indulgence, callousness and undoubted acumen while secure in the knowledge that he was to be the last great French king. Thus he sets new standards in dress and displays uncommon fastidiousness in eating but successfully averts a recurrence of 'la Fronde'.