The King Is Dancing (2000)
Le roi danse (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Benoît Magimel	...	Louis XIV
	Boris Terral	...	Jean-Baptiste Lully
	Tchéky Karyo	...	Molière
	Colette Emmanuelle	...	Anne d'Autriche
	Cécile Bois	...	Madeleine
	Claire Keim	...	Julie
	Johan Leysen	...	Cambert
	Idwig Stephane	...	Prince de Conti
	Emil Tarding	...	Louis XIV (14 Years Old)
	Jacques François	...	Cambefort
	Caroline Veyt	...	Armande Béjart
	Ingrid Rouif	...	Mme de Montespan
	Philippe Quercy	...	Mazuel
	Pierre Gérald	...	Boesset
	Claude Koener	...	Narrator of Ballet de la Nuit

Storyline

Corbiau repeats the Farinelli formula, artistic rivalry and social private drama expressed in dazzling, sometimes excessively lavish baroque scenery, music and costume, but this time in its ultimate setting: Versailles. There are two protagonists - first the title character, Louis XIV, the French sun-king who has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer (like Nero wrote and performed musical poetry), and starts asserting himself against the entourage of his Medici mother, the regent during his minority, by building his palace complex and launching a 'fitting' new, mainly musical display of baroque show. Secondly the musical genius Gianbattista Lulli ('Jean-Baptiste') Lully, a Florentine upstart of unbridled ambition, quickly gains the king's absolute trust, despite the nationalist and aristocratic opposition to a low-born Italian... Written by KGF Vissers  

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