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Le déluge (second feature)

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Le déluge

original title:

Le déluge

italian title:

Gli ultimi giorni di Maria Antonietta

directed by:

Gianluca Jodice

cast:

Mélanie Laurent, Guillaume Canet, Aurore Broutin, Hugo Dillon, Tom Hudson, Roxane Duran, Anouk Darwin Homewood, Vidal Arzoni, Fabrizio Rongione

screenplay:

Gianluca Jodice, Filippo Gravino

cinematography:

Daniele Ciprì

set design:

Tonino Zera

costume design:

Massimo Cantini Parrini

music:

Fabio Massimo Capogrosso

producer:

Matteo Rovere, Andrea Paris, Yann Zenou

production:

Ascent Film, Quad, Rai Cinema, with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte

distribution:

Bim Distribuzione [Italy], Film Europe [Czech Republic], Memento Distribution [France], Film Europe [Slovakia], Xenix Filmdistribution [Switzerland]

world sales:

Goodfellas - Wild Bunch [France]

country:

Italy/France

year:

2024

format:

colour

status:

Ready (10/07/2024)

festivals & awards:

1792. Louis XVI, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their children have been arrested and imprisoned in the Tour du Temple, a sinister chateau in Paris, awaiting their trial. Far from the splendour of Versailles, they are isolated and vulnerable for the first time in their lives.

DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
This is literally an apocalyptic film: it deals with the moment when all veils and all masks are stripped away. It has a metaphysical rather than a historical ambition, and explores a personal apocalypse: that of the protagonists.