from Miramax
Directed by
Roland
Joffé
Starring
Gérard
Depardieu (François Vatel)
Uma
Thurman (Anne de Montausier)
Tim
Roth (Le Marquis de Lauzun)
Timothy
Spall (Gourville)
Julian
Sands (Louis XIV)
Julian
Glover (Le Prince de Condé)
Jérôme Pradon (Marquis d'Effiat)
Marine Delterme (Athenaïs de Montespan)
Murray Lachlan Young (Monsieur)
Nathalie Cerda (La Reine Marie-Thérèse)
Nick Robinson (Colin)
Arielle Dombasle (La Princesse de Condé)
Hywel Bennett (Colbert)
Richard Griffiths (Dr. Bourdelot)
Sébatstien Davis (Demaury)
Written by
Jeanne Labrune
Tom
Stoppard
Rated: 
(for sexual content and some violence) |
The year is 1671. King Louis XIV (Julian Sands) rules at Versailles.
In the North of France, Prince de Condé (Julian Glover)
has come up with a plan to get his province out of debt: he'll
invite the King to his country chateau for a weekend of spectacle
and merriment. If he can get back in the King's good graces,
his region can avoid economic disaster. The whole plan, and the
prosperity of an entire province, rests on the one man who can
deliver the sumptuous food, elaborate entertainment and all-out
decadence fit for this King. He is the prince's steward, Vatel
(Gérard Depardieu). But in the midst of preparing this
immense spectacle,Vatel catches the eye of the beautiful Anne
de Montausier (Uma Thurman). In so doing, he has placed himself
in direct competition with the King.
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