Ridicule. Dir. Patrice Leconte (1996)

Nathalie CROUAU

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1. Film data

Ridicule
Film
Director(s) : Patrice Leconte
Cast : Fanny Ardant (Mme de Blayac), Charles Berling (Ponceludon), Bernard Giraudeau (Villecourt), Judith Godrèche (Mathilde), Jean Rochefort (Bellegarde), Carlo Brandt (Milletail), Bernard Dhéran (Montalieri), Albert Delpy (Baron de Guéret), Jacques Mathou (Abbé de l'Epée), Urbain Cancelier (Louis XVI)
Script : Eric Vicaut, Michel Fessler, Rémi Waterhouse
Cinematography : Thierry Arbogast
Editing : Joëlle Hache
Music : Antoine Duhamel
Design : Ivan Maussion
Costumes : Christian Gasc
Producer(s) : Frédéric Brillion, Gilles Legrand, Philippe Carcassonne
Production : Epithète, Cinéa, France 3 cinéma, Canal+, Investimage 4, Polygram Audiovisuel, La Procirep, Gras Savoye, Centre National du Cinéma
Running time : 100 min.
Country(ies) : France
Year : 1996
Color
Language(s) : French
Video publisher : Universal Pictures Video, 1996
Medium(s) : DVD

English Synopsis

L’abbé de l’Epée (Jacques Mathou) introduces his young deaf and mute students to the Court and announces that two of them will soon be married. The assembled courtesans are shocked at the prospect of that union which they regard as a mockery of the sanctity of marriage. Perceiving the opportunity of a witticism, Madame de Blayac (Fanny Ardant) ridicules the upcoming nuptials by comparing them to a play by Shakespeare starring circus animals: « Un jour j’ai vu jouer à Paris Roméo et Juliette, avec un singe et un caniche. »

3. Analysis

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