Le Roi Soleil (Movie reviews)

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Le Roi Soleil is a successful French comedy musical about the life of Louis XIV. The premiere took place in 2005 at the Palais des Sports in Paris. Several episodes of the first performance and both 2 acts were filmed and were issued on DVD in 2007. The action contains the elements of historical drama and also is a kind of documentary.

The play starts with the revolt against Cardinal Mazarin known from the history as the Fronde. Young Louis is becoming the King at Reims, but the actual ruler is his mother, Anne of Austria. Both of them believe Louis to be unable to rule France.
Louis falls in love with the niece of Cardinal Mazarin Marie Mancini. To prove himself as a man, the young monarch decides to leave for the war at the head of his armies falls in battle, victim to a serious disease, and for a long time is believed dead. The court forgets him and attempts to name his brother Philippe the new King of France, who doesn’t ready for this kind of activity.

Suddenly, the doctors managed to relive Louis who learns that he has been forgotten by everyone in the country except Marie and his brother.
Anne of Austria and Mazarin forbade Louis to marry to Marie and banished her into exile. The first act ends with the pain of separation.

The second Act begins with the death of Mazarin, upon which Louis seizes power and becomes the Sun King. He loses himself in the arms of many women, forgetting that his people will pay heavy taxes for the construction of an excessive dream- the Chateau de Versailles. The musical can be found online or could be downloaded from the p2p network and, of course, it’s possible to purchase it on DVD. The musical can be viewed by the whole family.

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