Guillaume Canet as Louis XVI, Mélanie Laurent as Marie-Antoinette: here is a duo that has something to arouse curiosity.
This Tuesday, May 2, the production company Cineuropa lifted the veil on the release of a new historical film, called
The Deluge
, starring the two actors and directed by the Franco-Italian filmmaker Gianluca Jodice (
The Poet, The Dictator
).
The story focuses on the last days of Queen Marie-Antoinette and King Louis XVI of France, from the uprising of the people against power to their flight to the provinces until their beheading.
Supported by Paolo Sorrentino (
La Grande Bellezza
,
The Young Pope
), the film was shot between Turin and Paris, for six weeks.
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Unrecognizable Guillaume Canet
If no release date has been revealed for the moment, a first photo however gives an overview of the very licked universe of the production.
Within the walls of what appears to be the Palace of Versailles, Guillaume Canet appears unrecognizable under magnifying prostheses, silk stockings and bloomers.
At his side, Mélanie Laurent camps Marie-Antoinette in a dress "in gaulle" dear to the queen of Austrian origin, her face sprinkled with talc, topped with a gray headdress.
The cast also includes the Frenchwoman Aurore Broutin, the Briton Tom Hudson and the Austrian Roxane Duran.
Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet as Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI in
Le Déluge
.
Ascent/Rai Cinema/QUAD
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French productions
The announcement of this new period film comes shortly after the release of The
Three Musketeers: d'Artagnan
, on April 5, which won over the public with its dizzying sequence shots and its brilliant cast, with Pio Marmaï, Romain Duris, Francois Civil, Vincent Cassel and Eva Green.
A new era thus seems to be dawning on the side of European cinema, which is reviving the great historical frescoes.
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Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan