PRESS NOTES: THE ROYAL TREATMENT
Jan 14, 2009In movie criticism, there’s praise, and then there’s praise. In his New York Times review of Criterion’s double-barreled Roberto Rossellini history film release slate this week—the special edition
Italy
1966
100 minutes
Color
1.33:1
French
456
Filmmaking legend Roberto Rossellini brings his passion for realism and unerring eye for the everyday to this portrait of the early years of the reign of France’s “Sun King,” and in the process reinvents the costume drama. The death of chief minister Cardinal Mazarin, the construction of the palace at Versailles, the extravagant meals of the royal court: all 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-life figure at the level of mere mortal.
| Louis | Jean-Marie Patte |
| Colbert | Raymond Jourdan |
| Cardinal Mazarin | Silvagni |
| Anne d’Autriche | Katharina Renn |
| Madame du Plessis | Dominique Vincent |
| Fouquet | Pierre Barrat |
| Le Tellier | Fernand Fabre |
| Louise de la Vallière | Françoise Ponty |
| Marie-Thérèse | Joelle Laugeois |
| Director | Roberto Rossellini |
| Written and adapted by | Philippe Erlanger and Jean Gruault |
| Photographed by | Georges Leclerc and Jean-Louis Picavet |
| Editing | Armand Ridel |
| Production Design | Maurice Valay |
| Costumes | Christiane Coste |
In movie criticism, there’s praise, and then there’s praise. In his New York Times review of Criterion’s double-barreled Roberto Rossellini history film release slate this week—the special edition
In 1962, Roberto Rossellini called a press conference in a bookshop in Rome and announced that the cinema was dead. “There’s a crisis not just in film but culture...
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