Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- In French — subtitles on.
The story
A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
- prisoner
- amputation
- deportation
- scandal
- priest
- cannibal
- incest
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Philippe Noiret
Philip of Orléans
Jean Rochefort
Abbot Dubois
Jean-Pierre Marielle
The Marquis de Pontcallec
Marina Vlady
The Marchioness of Parabère
- Christine Pascal — Emilie
- Alfred Adam — François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroy
- Jean-Roger Caussimon — The Cardinal
- Gérard Desarthe — The Duke of Bourbon
- Michel Beaune — Captain La Griolais
- Monique Chaumette — Yvonne, governess of Pontcallec
- François Dyrek — Montlouis
- Jean-Paul Farré — Father Burdo
- Nicole Garcia — 'La Fillon'
- Raymond Girard — Chirac
- Jacques Hilling — Abbot Gratellard
- Directed
- Bertrand Tavernier
- Written
- Bertrand Tavernier, Jean Aurenche
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 85 ratings
- Studio
- Fildebroc, Les Productions de la Guéville, Universal Pictures France
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
