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A Little Chaos
A Little Chaos is a 2014 British period drama film directed by Alan Rickman, based on a story conceived by Alison Deegan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rickman and Jeremy Brock. It stars Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory, Steven Waddington, Jennifer Ehle and Rupert Penry-Jones. It was financed by Lionsgate UK and produced by BBC Films. The second film directed by Rickman, after his 1997 debut The Winter Guest, and the last before his death in 2016, it was also the second collaboration of Rickman and Winslet after their 1995 film Sense and Sensibility. Production took place in London in mid-2013, and it premiered as the closing night film at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on 13 September 2014.
King Louis XIV of France assigns the design and construction of the Gardens of Versailles to his head landscape architect André Le Nôtre. Already managing numerous large projects, Le Nôtre interviews other landscape designers to whom he might be able to delegate some of the work. One of the candidates is Sabine de Barra, who is that rare thing in the 17th century: an independent professional woman.
When Sabine arrives on the palace grounds for her interview, she pauses to move a potted plant in the courtyard. Seeing this, André asks during the interview if she prizes order in design. When pressed, Sabine suggests that she would rather create something uniquely French than follow classical and Renaissance styles. André reminds her that everything he has built and designed follows order. Sabine apologizes and sincerely expresses admiration for him and his work, but André abruptly shows her the door.
André mulls over the candidates, under pressure to please the King. His assistant judiciously re-presents Madame de Barra's designs to him, prompting André to reconsider them.
André surprises Sabine at her home that evening, and after admiring her seemingly untamed but magical garden, assigns to her the outdoor bosquet ballroom project at Versailles, which combines fountains and landscaping. His original plans require a costly fresh water supply; Sabine suggests continuously recycling water through the fountains using a reservoir.
Sabine is befriended at court by the King's brother Duc Philippe d'Orléans and his wife Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine. Sabine and André are mutually attracted but do not act on their feelings due to André's marriage and Sabine and André's professional relationship.
Queen Maria Theresa dies suddenly. Stunned at her loss, the King takes refuge in the gardens at the Château de Marly, among the pear trees. Sabine finds him there, initially mistaking him for the gardener with whom she had hoped to trade some plants. The King enjoys her warmth and forthrightness, and even after she recognizes him, they continue their conversation as equals. He invites her to travel with him to the Palace of Fontainebleau.
André has been enduring his wife Françoise's infidelities; Françoise insists that the key to his success is her relationships and influence at court. When she senses his interest in Sabine and warns him against an affair, he quotes to her her own words about their right to seek comfort elsewhere.
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A Little Chaos
A Little Chaos is a 2014 British period drama film directed by Alan Rickman, based on a story conceived by Alison Deegan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rickman and Jeremy Brock. It stars Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory, Steven Waddington, Jennifer Ehle and Rupert Penry-Jones. It was financed by Lionsgate UK and produced by BBC Films. The second film directed by Rickman, after his 1997 debut The Winter Guest, and the last before his death in 2016, it was also the second collaboration of Rickman and Winslet after their 1995 film Sense and Sensibility. Production took place in London in mid-2013, and it premiered as the closing night film at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on 13 September 2014.
King Louis XIV of France assigns the design and construction of the Gardens of Versailles to his head landscape architect André Le Nôtre. Already managing numerous large projects, Le Nôtre interviews other landscape designers to whom he might be able to delegate some of the work. One of the candidates is Sabine de Barra, who is that rare thing in the 17th century: an independent professional woman.
When Sabine arrives on the palace grounds for her interview, she pauses to move a potted plant in the courtyard. Seeing this, André asks during the interview if she prizes order in design. When pressed, Sabine suggests that she would rather create something uniquely French than follow classical and Renaissance styles. André reminds her that everything he has built and designed follows order. Sabine apologizes and sincerely expresses admiration for him and his work, but André abruptly shows her the door.
André mulls over the candidates, under pressure to please the King. His assistant judiciously re-presents Madame de Barra's designs to him, prompting André to reconsider them.
André surprises Sabine at her home that evening, and after admiring her seemingly untamed but magical garden, assigns to her the outdoor bosquet ballroom project at Versailles, which combines fountains and landscaping. His original plans require a costly fresh water supply; Sabine suggests continuously recycling water through the fountains using a reservoir.
Sabine is befriended at court by the King's brother Duc Philippe d'Orléans and his wife Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine. Sabine and André are mutually attracted but do not act on their feelings due to André's marriage and Sabine and André's professional relationship.
Queen Maria Theresa dies suddenly. Stunned at her loss, the King takes refuge in the gardens at the Château de Marly, among the pear trees. Sabine finds him there, initially mistaking him for the gardener with whom she had hoped to trade some plants. The King enjoys her warmth and forthrightness, and even after she recognizes him, they continue their conversation as equals. He invites her to travel with him to the Palace of Fontainebleau.
André has been enduring his wife Françoise's infidelities; Françoise insists that the key to his success is her relationships and influence at court. When she senses his interest in Sabine and warns him against an affair, he quotes to her her own words about their right to seek comfort elsewhere.