{"id":12474,"date":"2018-02-16T21:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T03:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12474"},"modified":"2018-02-15T20:32:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T02:32:53","slug":"the-death-of-louis-xiv-2016-albert-serra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12474","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Louis XIV (2016, Albert Serra)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Optimally, this should be watched directly after <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7840\">The Rise of Louis XIV<\/a><\/em> by Rossellini.  I&#8217;m such an idiot about royalty and history that I&#8217;d forgotten it was the same king until I looked it up after watching this.  I do hope Serra makes films about the deaths of every Louis, so we can keep them all straight.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/deathlouis2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The King has an infected leg, but everyone&#8217;s too deferential to insist he get help or to suggest anything drastic like amputation, so he just lays there and slowly dies.  Serra has finally decided that if nothing&#8217;s going to happen in his movies, at least they could stand to look nice, which is a huge step forward for him after <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9888\">the last one<\/a>, but I&#8217;m not sure why I keep watching them.  It&#8217;s attractively underlit, thanks to new cinematographer Jonathan Ricquebourg (<em>The Challenge<\/em>).  Long takes, with an intriguing performance by Jean-Pierre Leaud, who&#8217;s like an overdressed baby.  And it&#8217;s probably worth watching the entire movie for the great final line, which was also the title of Cinema Scope&#8217;s Cannes roundup article.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/deathlouis1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t recognize Patrick d&#8217;Assum\u00e7ao (the guy who isn&#8217;t naked in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9014\">Stranger by the Lake<\/a><\/em>) as lead doctor Fagon, and IMDB is unenlightening about the other two guys who are always in the room, Marechal and servant Blouin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optimally, this should be watched directly after The Rise of Louis XIV by Rossellini. I&#8217;m such an idiot about royalty and history that I&#8217;d forgotten it was the same king until I looked it up after watching this. I do hope Serra makes films about the deaths of every Louis, so we can keep them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1644,34,125],"class_list":["post-12474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-albert-serra","tag-france","tag-jean-pierre-leaud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12502,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12474\/revisions\/12502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}