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Taking Of Power By Louis XIV, The: Criterion Collection (La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Filmmaking legend Roberto RosseIlini brings his passion for realism and unerring eye for the everyday to this portrait of the earIy years of the reign of France's "Sun King," and in the process reinvents the costume drama. The death of chief minister CardinaI Mazarin, the construction of the paIace at VersaiIIes, the extravagant meals of the royal court: aII are recounted with the same meticulous quotidian detail that Rossellini brought to his contemporary portraits of postwar Italy. The Taking Of Power By Louis XIV dares to place a larger-than-Iife figure at the level of mere mortaI. |
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