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The Favourite
Why this pick
A court drama shaped by intimate female power struggles, ritualised service and shifting loyalties, with a similarly uneasy sense of private lives pressed against public rule.
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MOVIE2012 1h 40m FRA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
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Why this pick
A patient, tactile vision of Versailles at the end of an era, observing ceremonial routine as it turns oppressive and fragile rather than treating monarchy as spectacle.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, the court at the Palace of Versailles still live their routines, relatively unconcerned by the increasing turmoil in Paris a mere twenty miles away. The routines are seen through the eyes of the young Sidonie Laborde, who serves Queen Marie Antoinette.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Anne Benoît
Rose Bertin
Grégory Gadebois
Comte de Provence
Luc Palun
Léa Seydoux
Sidonie Laborde
Diane Kruger
Marie Antoinette
Virginie Ledoyen
Gabrielle de Polignac
Xavier Beauvois
Louis XVI
Noémie Lvovsky
Mme Campan