The Flood

2024 · 101 min · FR · 6.2 (57 votes)

Dir. Gianluca Jodice · Starring Guillaume Canet, Mélanie Laurent, Aurore Broutin, Hugo Dillon, Roxane Duran, Anouk Darwin Homewood

DramaHistory

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.

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A darkly comedic and claustrophobic character study, this film immerses you in the bittersweet final days of a royal family stripped of power. It's a wry, anxious experience, observing humanity's resilience and folly amidst the quiet tension of impending fate.

tragicomicwryclaustrophobicanxiousbittersweetsteadyintimate period dramacharacter-drivensatiricalhistorical realismdownfallconfinementloss of privilegehumanity under duressirony of fate

paris, francemarie antoinetteversailles18th centurylouis xvisemi-biographicalhistorical comedybased on storiesbased on manuscriptking louis xvi of france