The King's Daughters
Synopsis
France, early 18th Century. Madame de Maintenon, wife of Louis the 14th, has founded Saint-Cyr, a boarding school outside of Paris for the daughters of destitute nobility. Girls of all ages are gathered throughout the kingdom and brought here to acquire the language and manners befitting to their rank. For Madame de Maintenon, what begins as an amusing and heart-warming form of cultural charity will, over the years, become a source of nightmarish anxiety and eventually religious fanaticism. When the blooming young women present the court with a play writen for them by Racine, Saint-Cyr is brought to the attention of the king's entourage of rapacious young men in need of "fresh blood". The ensuing wave of wedding proposals only serves to exacerbate the growing sensual tension of adolescence that is wreaking havoc in Saint-Cyr. As a result, Madame de Maintenon turns to father Godet des Marais, an uncompromising Lazarist priest, who shrouds Saint-Cyr in a cloak of disciplinarian asceticism. But will it ultimately bring Madame de Maintenon and her girls salvation or damnation?
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Director (1)
Actors (12)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Archipel 35 / Archipel 33
- Co-productions : Les Films du Camélia, France 2 Cinéma, Arte France Cinéma, Entre Chien et Loup, Cinéart
- Foreign production company : Bright Lights Productions
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL
- French distribution : Universal Pictures International France
Full credits (21)
- Executive Producer : Denis Freyd
- Screenwriters : Yves Thomas, Patricia Mazuy
- Dialogue Writer : Yves Thomas
- Director of Photography : Thomas Mauch
- Music Composer : John Cale
- Assistant directors : Aude Cathelin, Christophe Marillier, Raphaëlle Piani
- Editor : Ludo Troch
- Sound Recordist : Henri Morelle
- Costume designer : Édith Vesperini
- Foreign producers : Helga Bähr, Diana Elbaum
- Author of original work : Yves Dangerfield
- Camera Operator : Jörg Widmer
- Production Manager : Jérôme Chalou
- Press Attaché (film) : François Hassan Guerrar
- Sound Editor : Laurent Kossayan
- Assistant editors : Estelle Babut-Gay, Rodolphe Risse
- Production Designers : Thierry François, François Decaux
- Foley artist : Gadou Naudin
- Casting : Antoinette Boulat
- Sound mixers : Laurent Kossayan, Vincent Arnardi
- Still Photographer : Roger Arpajou
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : History
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Belgium, Germany
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Belgium, Germany)
- Production year : 2000
- French release : 17/05/2000
- Runtime : 1 h 59 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 93.355
- Visa issue date : 13/03/2000
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby DTS
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News & awards
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Selections (14)
Awards (2)
Cesar Awards - French film industry awards
France, 2001
César Award for Best Costume Design : Édith Vesperini, Jean-Daniel Vuillermoz
About
"It’s hard to feel sorry for Madame de Maintenon. She doesn’t bring tears to your eyes, nor does she weep herself. At no moment does she realize she’s failed. She goes from one certainty to another, from utopia to madness. Lacking insight, she creates a tangle of contradictions between her submission to the king and her own wishes, between her fear of hellfire and her thirst for power."
Isabelle Huppert, Actress
