The gardener of Versailles

Movie
German title	The gardener of Versailles
Original title	A little mess
Country of production	Great Britain
original language	English
Publishing year	2014
length	112 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Alan Rickman
script	Jeremy Brock , ; Alison Deegan , ; Alan Rickman
production	Andrea Calderwood , ; Gail Egan , ; Bertrand Faivre
music	Peter Gregson
camera	Ellen Kuras
cut	Nicolas Gaster
occupation
	Kate Winslet : Sabine De Barra; Matthias Schoenaerts : André Le Nôtre ; Alan Rickman : King Louis XIV. ; Stanley Tucci : Philippe, Duke of Orleans ; Helen McCrory : Madame Françoise Le Notre; Steven Waddington : Duras; Jennifer Ehle : Madame de Montespan ; Rupert Penry-Jones : Antonin Nompar de Caumont ; Paula Paul : Liselotte from the Palatinate ;

The gardener of Versailles (original title: A Little Chaos ) is a British period film by the director Alan Rickman from 2014 .

action

Monsieur Le Nôtre , garden architect at the court of Louis XIV , selects his unconventional colleague Sabine De Barra to work on the gardens of the new palace in Versailles in 1682 . The two fall in love, which enables her to get over the deaths of her husband and daughter.

production

Although the film is set in France, it was shot in England. Shooting started on March 27, 2013, and shooting was completed on June 8, 2013. Filming locations were next to Pinewood Studios , Black Park (Waxam, Buckinghamshire ), Cliveden House , Blenheim Palace , Waddesdon Manor , Hampton Court Palace , Ham House , Ashridge ( Hertfordshire ) and in Chenies Manor House (Buckinghamshire).

Historical accuracy

Bosquet des rocailles in Versailles

Some of the characters in the film are fictional, first and foremost the protagonist Sabine de Barras. The film is set in 1682, while André Le Nôtre began his work in 1661. In 1682 Le Notre was almost seventy years old, twice as old as Schoenaerts, who embodied him in the film. One garden very similar to the one in the film is the Bosquet des Rocailles of the Palace of Versailles

publication

The premiere took place at TIFF 2014 on September 13, 2014. On October 17, 2014 it was shown in a gala show at the London Film Festival . It premiered in the United States on March 25, 2015 at the Sonoma International Film Festiva. In Germany, the film was released on April 30, 2015.

Reviews

“The film […] pulls all the melodramatic stops, so to speak, without having to take it all so seriously. It's a gimmick, despite its melancholy mood, a movie fun that tries to play out its gender skirmishes appropriately. "

- Marli Feldvoss : epd film

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Certificate of release for The Gardener of Versailles . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2015 (PDF; test number: 150 979 K).
↑ She loves playing dress-up: Kate Winslet gets into costume for A Little Chaos as she stars in yet another period drama Daily Mail, April 24, 2013, accessed October 17, 2019
↑ A Little Chaos: leads historical accuracy down the garden path . In: The Guardian , April 24, 2015. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
↑ Full Line-Up Announced For the BFI London Film Festival 2014 . September 6, 2014.
↑ Love Gala A Little Chaos . In: whatson.bfi.org.uk . Archived from the original on October 17, 2019. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
↑ Steve Chagollon: Sonoma Film Fest Kicks Off With Alan Rickman's 'A Little Chaos' . In: Variety , March 9, 2015. Retrieved October 17, 2019.
↑ Marli Feldvoss: Review of The Gardener of Versailles. In: epd film . Joint work of Protestant journalism , April 17, 2015, accessed on January 4, 2019 .

[FSK-1] Certificate of release for The Gardener of Versailles . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2015 (PDF; test number: 150 979 K).

[2] She loves playing dress-up: Kate Winslet gets into costume for A Little Chaos as she stars in yet another period drama Daily Mail, April 24, 2013, accessed October 17, 2019

[accuracy-3] A Little Chaos: leads historical accuracy down the garden path . In: The Guardian , April 24, 2015. Retrieved October 17, 2019.

[4] Full Line-Up Announced For the BFI London Film Festival 2014 . September 6, 2014.

[5] Love Gala A Little Chaos . In: whatson.bfi.org.uk . Archived from the original on October 17, 2019. Retrieved October 17, 2019.

[6] Steve Chagollon: Sonoma Film Fest Kicks Off With Alan Rickman's 'A Little Chaos' . In: Variety , March 9, 2015. Retrieved October 17, 2019.

[epd-7] Marli Feldvoss: Review of The Gardener of Versailles. In: epd film . Joint work of Protestant journalism , April 17, 2015, accessed on January 4, 2019 .