Two talented landscape artists become romantically entangled while building a garden in King Louis XIV's palace at Versailles.Two talented landscape artists become romantically entangled while building a garden in King Louis XIV's palace at Versailles.Two talented landscape artists become romantically entangled while building a garden in King Louis XIV's palace at Versailles.
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- 2 nominations
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- TriviaAndre Le Notre designed the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
- GoofsIn the beginning of the film Louis XIV is surrounded by his children in his bedroom. One of his young daughters is wearing a very modern, 21st century 'bob' hairstyle while her sisters have very long hair which would have been correct for the period.
- Quotes
King Louis XIV: And what protection can the gardener afford this rose from the harsh elements of change?
Sabine De Barra: Patience, care, and a little warmth from the sun are our best hope your Majesty.
- Crazy creditsOpening credits: There is an outdoor ballroom in the gardens of Versailles. In what follows, that much at least is true.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Projector: The Water Diviner/A Little Chaos (2015)
Featured review
THE DUCHESS moves to Versailles
Belying its title, this is a charmingly well-ordered 'chamber-piece' movie about the creation of Louis XIV's spectacular grounds at Versailles. Landscape architect Andre Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts) recruits - a surprise in 17th-century society - a woman to design one of the garden's water features. Sabine De Barra (Kate Winslet) is a widow; Andre is married to a heartless slut (Helen McCrory); so we can expect something more than potting to be happening in the potting shed before the gardens are finished! There's a lovely scene when Sabine finds King Louis (Alan Rickman) alone and unwigged on a bench and mistakes him for the chief gardener.
I worried that A LITTLE CHAOS might be like one of Peter Greenaway's movies, a triumph of style over substance, but it's got almost as much substance as an Oscar Wilde adaptation. There's no attempt to "Frenchify" the language in the style of 'Allo 'Allo: everyone speaks accentless English. Alan Rickman (who also directed) plays the king in the grand style of Lady Bracknell, and Winslet is perfectly cast as a woman of substance and quiet wisdom. Belgium's Monsieur Schoenaerts is having a busy year and although this is role is similar to the one he had in SUITE FRANCAISE he seems more comfortable in it this time. Stanley Tucci and Jennifer Ehle play the top dogs/bitches in His Majesty's court and I'd like to have seen more of them both.
OK this movie is a bit overdone and artificial (like the gardens at Versailles), but the cast are believable and lovable, and the story delivers comedy, romance and intrigue. If you liked THE DUCHESS, you will love this.
I worried that A LITTLE CHAOS might be like one of Peter Greenaway's movies, a triumph of style over substance, but it's got almost as much substance as an Oscar Wilde adaptation. There's no attempt to "Frenchify" the language in the style of 'Allo 'Allo: everyone speaks accentless English. Alan Rickman (who also directed) plays the king in the grand style of Lady Bracknell, and Winslet is perfectly cast as a woman of substance and quiet wisdom. Belgium's Monsieur Schoenaerts is having a busy year and although this is role is similar to the one he had in SUITE FRANCAISE he seems more comfortable in it this time. Stanley Tucci and Jennifer Ehle play the top dogs/bitches in His Majesty's court and I'd like to have seen more of them both.
OK this movie is a bit overdone and artificial (like the gardens at Versailles), but the cast are believable and lovable, and the story delivers comedy, romance and intrigue. If you liked THE DUCHESS, you will love this.
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- Apr 22, 2015
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- Версальський роман
- Filming locations
- Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, UK(bridge and lake)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $558,173
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $181,791
- Jun 28, 2015
- Gross worldwide
- $10,084,623
- Runtime1 hour 57 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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