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Ridicule
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
1996 · Directed by Patrice Leconte · 102 min · Comedy · Drama · Romance · 18 frames
Tagline
Wit is the ultimate weapon.
Crew
- Screenplay: Eric Vicaut, Michel Fessler, Rémi Waterhouse
- Cinematography: Thierry Arbogast
- Edited by: Joëlle Hache
- Music: Antoine Duhamel
- Produced by: Philippe Carcassonne, Gilles Legrand, Frédéric Brillion
Cast
- Charles Berling as Le Marquis Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy
- Jean Rochefort as Le Marquis de Bellegarde
- Fanny Ardant as Madame de Blayac
- Judith Godrèche as Mathilde de Bellegarde
- Bernard Giraudeau as L'Abbée de Vilecourt
- Bernard Dhéran as Montalieri
- Carlo Brandt as Milletail
- Jacques Mathou as Abbé de l'Épée
- Urbain Cancelier as Louis XVI
- Albert Delpy as Baron de Guéret
Production
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Studios: Epithète Films
- Budget: $3,000,000
- Box office: $2,503,829
- Themes: court, bedroom, painter, versailles, duel, rabbit, drainage project, powder, 18th century, sign languages
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