One Nation, One King
One Nation, One King | |
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French | Un peuple et son roi |
Directed by | |
Written by | Pierre Schoeller |
Starring | Gaspard Ulliel Adèle Haenel Laurent Lafitte |
Release date | |
Running time | 121 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
One Nation, One King (French: Un peuple et son roi) is a 2018 French film written and directed by .[3] It stars, among others, Adèle Haenel and Gaspard Ulliel, and shows the French Revolution in Paris from the storming of the Bastille to the execution of the King.[4]
It competed at the 75th Venice International Film Festival.[5]
Plot[]
The film is a historical fresco dealing with the French Revolution, especially the first years of the period (1789-1793), and notably focusing on the role and the perception of the contemporaries of King Louis XVI in the tumult which engulfed France at the end of the Ancien Régime.[6] The film looks at a number of historic figures of the time, such as Robespierre, Marat, Desmoulins and Danton, in the Estates General, the National Constituent Assembly, and finally the National Convention.
Cast[]
- Gaspard Ulliel as Basile
- Louis Garrel as Maximilien de Robespierre
- Adèle Haenel as Françoise Candole
- Céline Sallette as Reine Audu
- Laurent Lafitte as le roi Louis XVI
- as le Dauphin Louis Charles
- as la reine Marie-Antoinette
- Denis Lavant as Jean-Paul Marat
- Niels Schneider as Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
- Izïa Higelin as Margot Laforce
- Olivier Gourmet as Louis-Joseph Henri, dit « l’Oncle ».
- Noémie Lvovsky as Solange, épouse de l’Oncle
- Andrzej Chyra as
- Johan Libéreau as Tonin
- as femme Landelle
- as Stanislas-Marie Maillard
- as sectionnaire Lechenard
- as Clément l’Effaré
- as un patriote lors de la prise de la Bastille
- as Georges Jacques Danton
- as Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve
- as Pauline Léon
- as François Henri, comte de Virieu
- as Jean-Denis Lanjuinais
- as Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès
- as Gamon
- as Jean-Joseph Mounier, président de l’Assemblée
- as Antoine Barnave
- as Nicolas de Condorcet
- as Jacques Guillaume Thouret
- as Camille Desmoulins
- as Antoine-François Momoro
- as
- as César-Guillaume de La Luzerne, évêque de Langres
- Serge Merlin as Louis XI dans le cauchemar de Louis XVI
- Patrick Préjean as Henry IV of France dans le cauchemar de Louis XVI
- Louis-Do de Lencquesaing as Louis XIV dans le cauchemar de Louis XVI
- as Bertrand Barère
Release and reception[]
The film premiered in competition at the 75th Venice International Film Festival. It was the opening film of the 8th ,[7] and showed at the 2018 .[8]
Accolades[]
- : Jury des médias
- 44th César Awards[9]
- Nominated – César Award for Best Costume Design for
- Nominated – César Award for Best Production Design for Thierry François
References[]
- ^ "'One Nation, One King': Venice Review". Screen. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ "Film Review: 'One Nation, One King'". 31 December 2018. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ "Un peuple et son roi de Pierre Schoeller - (2017) - Drame, Drame sentimental". Retrieved 6 June 2020 – via www.telerama.fr.
- ^ "Un peuple et son roi » : la Révolution comme un torrent de paroles et de sang". Le Monde.fr. September 26, 2018 – via Le Monde.
- ^ "Un peuple et son roi : «Le film donne une vision unilatérale de la Révolution»". 27 September 2018.
- ^ "Un peuple et son roi - La Revolution vue par une famille d'artisans - Herodote.net". www.herodote.net. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ Geneston, Aurore. "7e Festival de l'Ecrit à l'écran : Hommage à Jean Rochefort, avant-premières et "Popeye" parmi nous". e_tribune.
- ^ https://www.biff.kr/eng/html/archive/arc_history23_02.asp?mode=view&idx=36890&piff_code=2018
- ^ "La révolution des César n'est pas qu'une affaire de famille". France Culture.
External links[]
- One Nation, One King at IMDb
- Relire la Révolution française : Grand entretien avec Pierre Schoeller, interview with Pierre Schoeller and Emmanuel Laurentin in Fabrique de l'histoire for France Culture 24 September 2018.
- 2018 films
- French-language films
- French historical films
- French films
- French Revolution films