The Death of Louis XIV
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Director: Albert Serra
2016 / 115min / DCP
As the long-reigning monarch of French cinema, Jean-Pierre Léaud is the natural choice to play France’s Sun King in the twilight of life. Serra’s morbidly comic film is a deathbed vigil for Louis XIV, closely observing both the king’s slow, wasting last days as he’s consumed by gangrene in his candlelit bedchamber and the scrupulous observation of court ritual by his retinue of servants and doctors. A sumptuously photographed, comically perverse, and engrossingly macabre cinematic experience.
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