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Vatel is a 2000 historical drama film directed by Roland Joffé, [2] written by Jeanne Labrune and translated by Tom Stoppard, and starring Gérard Depardieu, Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Timothy Spall, Julian Glover and Julian Sands.
Jean-Baptiste Lully, an Italian immigrant to France and noted composer of Baroque music. Black Robe: 1991: 1634: Jesuit missionary among the Hurons. The Devils: 1971: 1634: The life and trial of Urbain Grandier, who was convicted of witchcraft and burned. He was blamed for the Loudun possessions. The Devil's Whore: 2008: 1638–1660
Told in a segmented fashion, the film opens as Caravaggio dies from lead poisoning while in exile, with only his long-time, mute companion Jerusaleme, who was given by his family to the artist as a boy, by his side.
The Decameron (Italian: Il Decameron) is a 1971 anthology film written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the 14th-century allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio.It is the first film of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, the others being The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights.
Films of his such as Shanghai Express (1932) and The Devil Is a Woman (1935), with their hothouse eroticism and baroque visual style anticipated central elements of classic noir. The commercial and critical success of Sternberg's silent Underworld (1927) was largely responsible for spurring a trend of Hollywood gangster films. [ 31 ]
The Favourite is a 2018 satirical [8] absurdist [9] period dark comedy film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, and written by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara.A co-production between Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the film stars Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz.
2002 : baroque declamation of Sermon sur la mort by Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet at Saint-Étienne-du-Mont. 2003 : Présences: Essai sur la nature du cinéma (spoken word) 2007 : baroque declamation of Charles Perrault , six tales from Contes de ma mère l'Oye , Alpha 922.
(The current Criterion Collection Blu-ray release offers the ability to view the movie while listening to either Glass's score or the original soundtrack.) The 2003 American miniseries Angels in America features a dream sequence which duplicates the set design of the Beast's castle. A character is shown reading a book about Cocteau before the ...