Saint-Cyr (2000)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Patricia Mazuy

Writers:

Yves Dangerfield (novel)
Patricia Mazuy (writer)

Release Date:

17 May 2000 (France)

Genre:

Drama | History | Romance

Plot Keywords:

Countryside | Royalty | Saint Cyr | 17th Century | Schoolmistress

Awards:

3 wins & 7 nominations

Cast

Isabelle Huppert	...	Madame de Maintenon
Jean-Pierre Kalfon	...	Louis XIV
Simon Reggiani	...	The Abbot
Jean-François Balmer	...	Racine
Anne Marev	...	Madame de Brinon
Ingrid Heiderscheidt	...	Sylvine de la Maisonfort
Nina Meurisse	...	Lucie de Fontenelle
Morgane Moré	...	Anne de Grandcamp
Bernard Waver	...	Gobelin
Jérémie Renier	...	François de Réans
Jeanne Le Bigot	...	Lucie (child)
Mathilde Lechasles	...	Anne (child)
Alain Hinard	...	Le premier soldat
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bernard Amiot	...	Lazariste
Sophie Angot	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Sandrine Bellot	...	Petite verte 'Théâtre Brinon'
Lise Benoist	...	Petite 'patois'
Anne Billows	...	Actrice 'Esther'
Marine Biron	...	Actrice 'Esther'
Amélie Boblin	...	Actrice 'Esther'
Xavier Bossert	...	Courtisan
Sonia Bouchareb	...	Actrice 'Esther'
Jennifer Bouclé	...	Actrice 'Athalie' dans la nuit
Pierre Brault	...	Lazariste
Chloé Brotons	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Pauline Buet	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Brice Bussy	...	Courtisan
Anne Carpentier	...	Maîtresse
Claire Cartery	...	Actrice 'Esther'
Céline Chaillot	...	Petite 'patois'
Patrick Cheradame	...	Lazariste
Céleste Clemencet	...	Petite 'patois'
Marina Clément	...	Gevrey Touquery
Virginie Coquerel	...	Petite 'patois'
Dominique D'Arnoult	...	Courtisan
Philippe Daurios	...	Courtisan
Carole Delvenne
Iris Drouillette	...	Petite 'patois'
Julie DuBois	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Pauline Duclos-Grenet	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Jean-Marc Dupré	...	Courtisan
Marguerite Dutac	...	Servante
Mathilde Eckenschwiller	...	Actrice 'Esther'
Violaine Faucher	...	Petite 'patois'
Juna José Fleury	...	Lazariste
Jenna Fleutot	...	Petite 'patois'
Lucy Fleutot	...	Actrice 'Esther' D'ablancourt
Estelle Fouillet	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Marion François	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Nadège François	...	Actrice 'Esther'
Roger Gaboyer	...	Courtisan
Edith Gallot	...	Petite 'patois'
Clémence Gaudin	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Sarah Guillain	...	Petite 'patois'
Amélie Hergas
Vanessa Houtmann	...	Actrice 'Esther'
Ludivine Hue	...	Petite 'patois'
Julie Journeau	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Gloria Kraemer	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Emmanuelle Lafon
Valentine Lamotte	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Bibiana Lapointe	...	Courtisan
Virginie Lavenant	...	Servante
Jean-Marc Le Bronnec	...	Lazariste
Claude Le Pape	...	Actrice 'Esther'
Adélaïde Lerebours	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Johanna Lerebours	...	La malade avec Racine
Sandrine Letrecher	...	Courtisan
Capucine Mahé	...	Actrice 'Esther'
Adelaïde Malandain	...	Actrice 'Esther'
Damasie Malandain	...	Petite verte 'théâtre Brinon'
Xavier Maly
Estelle Marie	...	Petite 'patois'
Noëlla Mauduit	...	Actrice 'Esther'
Ingrid Molard	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Sophie Morris	...	Servante
Léon Napias	...	Courtisan
Lise Niqueux	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Annie Noël
Jean-Gabriel Nordmann
Célia Noris	...	Petites 'patois'
Marc Portughese	...	Courtisan
Céleste Prime	...	Petite 'patois'
Jean-Marie Seeuws	...	Lazariste
Eva Six	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Camille Tanguy	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Fien Troch
Camille Valette	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Sarah Valette	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Emilie Vautier	...	Petite 'patois'
Mathilde Verolles	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Fanny Villain
Nadège Villain	...	Actrice 'Esther'
Raphaëlle Voreux	...	Musicienne et chanteuse 'Esther'
Mélinda Weiss	...	Actrice 'Esther'

Also Known As:

Die Schule der verlorenen Mädchen (Germany)
The King's Daughters (International: English title)

Runtime:

119 min | Argentina:122 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)

Country:

France | Germany | Belgium

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:13 | France:U | Hong Kong:IIA | Singapore:NC-16

Filming Locations:

Abbaye Saint-Martin, Sées, Orne, France

Company:

Archipel 35

not that good

It's a pity I have to write in english here, I have the words in my own language but maybe not in shakespeare's. The movie tells about how Mme de Maintenon (last wife of king Louis the fourteenth) has created a young girls institution called Saint-Cyr. It is actually an excellent subject to understand the philosophical and religious questions of the Baroque, but for this time, well, it's just a not very good yet well intentioned film. Isabelle Huppert does her part all right (it's not her best acting anyways), Jean-Pierre Kalfon is a possible king Louis, but that is all, the rest of the cast is not professional enough to hold a bad script. Often in the film, writings tells us "5 years later", "one month later", "one summer day", and that is good, we'll understand nothing without them. It's a pity there is not more of that to tell us also who's who, what means what, what place is what, why a people going out of a room closes the door in front of him (in my world he can't get out then), why the horses rides are circular, why why why... The language used is not well chosen : it's sure not the languages of the times, not our times eigther, it is too much "written" but not well written. A funny idea was to show the little girls coming from the whole country using their local language (the 'patois'), the uniformization of the french language was one of the great chalenges of the 17th. The characters are not good, much too romantic, I'm not very happy to have spent one and a half hour watching this. The public will keep in mind some historical points, maybe, but it's not more intersting and less fun than "angélique marquise des anges". Historical movies like "tous les matins du monde" are much more intersting, they try (and fail or not, how to say ?) to catch the exact spirit of the ages. a 6/10 because I love very much Isabelle Huppert.