When talking about Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette, what immediately comes to mind are lace, tall wigs, flamboyant clothes and colours, Versailles, or… the guillotine.
Here, between these two extremes, exists a middle ground, a period seldom explored: the few months when the last king and queen of France were imprisoned, with their two young children, in a black castle on the outskirts of Paris, awaiting their executions.
Filmmaker Gianluca Jodice and costume designer Massimo Cantini Parrini will join us for a Q&A after the screening of the film.
THE FLOOD
dir: Gianluca Jodice
with Guillaume Canet, Mélanie Laurent, Aurore Brutin, Hugo Dillon
Italy/France | 2024 | 101 min
In French with English subtitles
Freely inspired from the writings of Cléry, Valet to the King until his death, Gianluca Jodice’s film retells the days spent awaiting trial by Louis XVI, his wife Marie Antoinette and their children after being arrested and imprisoned in the Temple Tower, a sinister castle in Paris. Far from the splendour of Versailles, they are isolated and vulnerable for the first time in their lives…
Massimo Cantini Parrini, is well known for the work creating the costumes of films, among several others, such as Joe Wright’s Cyrano, Michael Mann’s Ferrari, and, lately, Maria Callas’s biopic directed by Pablo Larraín, Maria, which will be showing as well. He will tell us about his research and creative work creating the costumes for the film.
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