For nearly all 115 minutes of “The Death of Louis XIV,” the hypnotically grueling new film from the Catalan writer-director Albert Serra, we are peering into a royal bedchamber at 18th century ...
SUN KINGS CRIB SEXY ROYAL 'TUDE FROM QUEEN AND THE STOOGES,CONSTRUCT CHEEKIEST ODE TO WOMANHOOD SINCE "CALIFORNIA GIRLS." When Louis XIV's Jason Hill spatters the come-on, "Hey, carrot juice, I wanna ...
French New Wave veteran Jean-Pierre Leaud stars as the bedridden Roi Soleil in Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra's latest. By Boyd van Hoeij Even though his mannered Locarno Golden Leopard Winner The ...
Albert Serra bothers critics. In the last 10 years, the 41-year-old Catalan has made a handful of slow films and installations. Although they’ve won him a small, vocal fan base, most critics demur.
to take the reins of power himself. In his youth, there had been uprisings by landed noblemen from their provincial estates launched against the crown. In order to prevent future uprisings, Louis XIV ...
Louis-Dieudonné — that’s Louis “Gift of God” — became king of France when he was not yet 5. His widowed mom, the Spanish Hapsburg queen of Austria, ruled in his place as he grew up, along with firm — ...
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The French are famous for their supposedly relaxed attitudes toward sex, in contrast to our supposedly puritanical ones. And no one is fonder of this cliché than the French themselves, as was apparent ...
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