Ridicule (1996)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.3/10   

Director:

Patrice Leconte

Escritores:

Rémi Waterhouse (scenario)
Michel Fessler (collaboration) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

22 noviembre 1996 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Drama | Romance

Frase comercial:

Il n'epargne personne.

Plot:

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

Plot Keywords:

Versailles | Humor | Table Manners | Female To Male Foot In Crotch | 1780s

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 15 wins & 12 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Gem of subtlety

Reparto

Charles Berling	...	Le Marquis Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy
Jean Rochefort	...	Le Marquis de Bellegarde
Fanny Ardant	...	Madame de Blayac
Judith Godrèche	...	Mathilde de Bellegarde
Bernard Giraudeau	...	L'Abbée de Vilecourt
Bernard Dhéran	...	Monsieur de Montalieri
Carlo Brandt	...	Le Chevalier de Milletail
Jacques Mathou	...	Abbé de l'Epée
Urbain Cancelier	...	Le Roi Louis XVI
Albert Delpy	...	Baron de Guéret
Bruno Zanardi	...	Paul
Marie Pillet	...	Charlotte
Jacques Roman	...	Chevernoy
Philippe Magnan	...	Baron de Malenval
Maurice Chevit	...	Le Notaire

También conocida como:

Juegos peligrosos (Ridicule) (Argentina) [es]
Ridicule: nadie está a salvo (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for graphic nudity, some sexuality and brief violence.

Duración:

102 min

País:

France

Idioma:

Francés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Singapore:M18 | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Chile:18 | Finland:K-12 | Germany:12 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R | France:U

Locaciones de Filmación:

Castle, Vaux-le-Vicomte, Seine-et-Marne, France

Compañía:

Epithète Films

Trivialidades:

Opening film at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.

Citas:

Mathilde de Bellegarde: A woman who throws herself at a man always loses him.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Baghead (2008)

Gem of subtlety

I have seen this film recently on video after having missed it at the cinema and on TV. I knew it would be all about cruelty of words and superficiality of elites. Indeed, this film is a true gem, very well played, sharp and quick. It tells the story of a young provincial nobleman discovering the Versailles Court as he tries to get funding for his project. What he finds will lead the nobility to its brutal end 6 years later: futility, self-conceit, disinterest to the people's problems, superficiality of relationships (all of which still pervade it modern French elite, to some respects as was evident from revelations of Mitterrand's shameful reign). Of course the political message is important. But equally if not more important -or pleasurable- are the dialogues. French can be so brutal, insidious, cruel, tortured, witty when used a propos that I'm not sure the non-French speakers could get the most of the dialogues. Certainly the absolutely brilliant rhymes contest would be somehow lost in English subtitles. A very good 9/10 for this movie, and a bit less if you don't get the dialogues.