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The King's Daughters
Film poster
Directed byPatricia Mazuy
Written byPatricia Mazuy
Yves Dangerfield
Yves Thomas
Produced byHelga Bähr
Diana Elbaum
Denis Freyd
StarringIsabelle Huppert
CinematographyThomas Mauch
Edited byLudo Troch
Music byJohn Cale
Production
companies		Archipel 35
Lichtblick FilmProduktion
Entre Chien et Loup
Arte France Cinéma
France 2 Cinéma
WDR
FMB Films
ACCAAN
Les Films du Camélia
Cinéart
Distributed byUniversal Pictures (through United International Pictures)
Release date
  • 17 May 2000 (2000-05-17)
Running time119 minutes
CountriesFrance
Belgium
Germany
LanguageFrench

The King's Daughters (French: Saint-Cyr) is a 2000 period drama film directed by Patricia Mazuy. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. It was adapted from the novel La maison d’Esther by Yves Dangerfield.

Plot

In March 1685, Louis XIV’s final wife Madame de Maintenon wishes to set up a boarding school for young daughters of noble families that have fallen on hard times, the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, a school where girls receive a pious but liberal education. The first difficulty is that the students from the provinces all speak different regional languages and dialects and the first task is to teach them all to speak a standardised Parisian French.

After a few years of indifference, the school’s first aims prove impossible to attain. An important crisis arises from a performance by the students of an extract from Iphigenie by Racine. This provokes too much passion among the actors and so Madame de Maintenon asks Racine to write her a play for her students that praises virtue – this proves to be Esther. The students put on the new play and, when the king and his court attend the production, Madame de Maintenon realises that this had made the nobles of the court view her protégées as targets for seduction and marriage. Marriage proposals mount up and one nobleman even manages to break into the school.

Madame de Maintenon decides to impose stricter rules and plunges into religion in an attempt to expiate her past. She asks an abbot to help her keep students on the right Christian moral path and keep them safe from the world. Instead of turning its students into an elite for the world outside, the school falls prey to realities, cuts itself off from reality and falls apart – the film ends with its final failure and closure.

Cast

Soundtrack

The film's score was composed by Welsh composer and former member of the Velvet Underground, John Cale. The score was arranged by Randy Wolf, and released as a soundtrack album.

See also

References

  1. "The King's Daughters". 17 May 2000. Retrieved 29 September 2016 – via IMDb.
  2. "The King's Daughter (2000)". UniFrance. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
  3. "Festival de Cannes: The King's Daughters". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 16 October 2009.
  4. John Cale - Saint-Cyr (Bande Originale Du Film), retrieved 13 August 2022

External links

Films directed by Patricia Mazuy
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