CRITIQUE – Italian director Gianluca Jodice was freely inspired by The Diary of a Servant of the Royal Family to build a film on this episode never before treated in the cinema.
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The French Revolution is far from having delivered everything to the seventh art. By focusing on the captivity of the royal family at the Temple from its arrival on August 13, 1792, until the execution of Louis XVI on January 21, 1793, The Flood highlights one of its episodes never treated by the cinema. The fact is astonishing, as its immense cinematographic potential immediately shines through, between closed doors and dramatic character. In any case, it did not escape the notice of the Italian director Gianluca Jodice, who was freely inspired by the Journal du valet Cléry to build his film as a tragedy in three acts around the couple formed by Louis XVI (Guillaume Canet) and Marie- Antoinette (Mélanie Laurent).
In the first act, “The Gods”, their throne does not yet seem completely overthrown. At least the queen wants to believe so…
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