FFFA: The Deluge

Synopsis

A transfixing historical drama that evocatively depicts the last days of the French Revolution and the fates of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI in 1792.

The official Parisian residence of the king, the Tuileries Palace, has been stormed. Louis (Guillaume Canet), Marie Antoinette (Melanie Laurent) and their children have been arrested and confined in the Tour du Temple, a mediaeval chateau in the city centre. Far from the splendour of Versailles, where the family and their retinue had lived until only a few years earlier, they are vulnerable for the first time in their lives. While the King naively tries to keep spirits high and manners intact, his pragmatic and imperious wife is far more realistic about their predicament, and the destiny that likely awaits them…

Drawn from the diaries of Louis XVI’s personal valet, this exceptionally crafted drama features not only marvellous production design and cinematography, but incredible costumes, transporting the audience with its depiction of a period from which our modern world was born.