Each year, the curators and programmers at the New York Film Festival bring the finest films from the festival circuit along with select World Premieres to devoted cinephiles and moviegoers in the Big Apple. 2016 is no different, with lots of great movies to choose from, and if you happen to be in New York, we’ve got tickets for this evening’s screening of Albert Serra‘s “The Death Of Louis XIV” at Alice Tully Hall at 6 PM.
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Starring the legendary Jean-Pierre Léaud as the Sun King, the film is a meditation on death, as Louis XIV grapples with the inevitability of his passing as various courtiers come to visit him at his bedside. Here’s the official synopsis:
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Versailles, August 1715. Back from hunting, Louis XIV – magisterially interpreted by New Wave icon and honorary Palme d’Or recipient (Jean-Pierre Léaud) – feels pain in his leg. A serious fever erupts, which marks the beginning of the agony of the greatest King of France. Surrounded by a horde of doctors and his closest counselors who come in turns at his bedside sensing the impending power vacuum, the Sun King struggles to run the country from his bed.
Based on extensive medical records and the memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon and other courtiers, The Death of Louis XIV is a wry neoclassical chamber drama, a work of pure magic by Albert Serra, one of today’s most singular directors.
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