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Ridicule (1996)
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Release Date:
22 November 1996 (USA)
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Il n'epargne personne. more
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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. full summary | add synopsis
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House Of Savoy
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Nominated for Oscar.
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12 nominations
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Best French film of the 1990's
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Charles Berling | ... | Le Marquis Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy |
| Jean Rochefort | ... | Le Marquis de Bellegarde |
| Fanny Ardant | ... | Madame de Blayac |
| Judith Godrèche | ... | Mathilde de Bellegarde |
| Bernard Giraudeau | ... | L'Abbée de Vilecourt |
| Bernard Dhéran | ... | Monsieur de Montalieri |
| Carlo Brandt | ... | Le Chevalier de Milletail |
| Jacques Mathou | ... | Abbé de l'Epée |
| Urbain Cancelier | ... | Le Roi Louis XVI |
| Albert Delpy | ... | Baron de Guéret |
| Bruno Zanardi | ... | Paul |
| Marie Pillet | ... | Charlotte |
| Jacques Roman | ... | Chevernoy |
| Philippe Magnan | ... | Baron de Malenval |
| Maurice Chevit | ... | Le Notaire |
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Rated R for graphic nudity, some sexuality and brief violence.
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102 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Iceland:L |
Singapore:M18 |
Argentina:16 |
Australia:MA |
Chile:18 |
Finland:K-12 |
Germany:12 |
Portugal:M/12 |
Spain:13 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
France:U
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Opening film at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.
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Abbe de Vilecourt:
Fresh from the country, you must find our courtly ways ridiculous.
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This is a very very intelligent movie. From a historical point of view, it's perfect! It shows how cruel and vain the French noblesse was before the French Revolution of 1789, and why this country had a revolution! It's also a fantastic movie for the beauty of the French language. Actors are fabulous, with Berling, Rochefort and Ardant. For me, French cinema is always at it's peak when they're doing comedy of historical movies, like this one, or Beaumarchais l'insolent, Marquise, or Cyrano de Bergerac. By the way, I'd like to tell Thefan-2 of Detroit that the Ridicule of the title don't mean Ridiculous. In the Renaissance French language, it means Hard. And that's what is facing Berling, when he wants to get in touch the king to help the poor people of his land.