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A Little Chaos
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- 2014
- 112 min
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Your Majesty.
Papa, we've made you breakfast.
Only Francoise is too
little to carry the tray,
so we have Philippe to help.
Yes, Uncle. I am the strongest.
My queen.
Good morning, Majesty.
Be it known
that we intend to hold court
at the Palace of Versailles
within the coming month of May.
Clap.
Do you see how important it is to
elicit the appropriate response?
Yes.
To this auspicious end,
the finest examples of humanity
shall embody
the true glory of France
in a palace of eternal
and resounding splendor.
Take note.
Your eloquence they must love,
your demeanor they must fear.
I have further commanded
France will realize this vision
unparalleled in
the history of the world
in gardens of exquisite
and matchless beauty.
Heaven
shall be here.
The light is fading, master.
Torches!
Madame?
Is it?
A week tomorrow at 11:00.
Don't forget about the length.
If you stand on the hem,
you'll rip it at the waist.
It's pinching me here.
Thank you.
Master Le Notre,
I am delighted to
make your acquaintance.
I've long been
an admirer of your work.
Le Notre?
Too clever by half,
if you ask me.
And riding on his father's name.
The strategy I employ
is to imitate.
'Tis all vanity
to these bigwigs.
Of course, once you're in,
you must have the talent.
Speaking of vanity,
there's a hat, now, gentlemen.
Who is this person?
That's Madame de Barra.
I'm astounded by that.
Monsieur Mauve's plans.
How many more candidates,
Claude?
Three more, monsieur, after this
one, but the end is in sight.
Dullness or disrespect,
that is my apparent choice.
If the king's demands
were not so vast,
I would build
the gardens myself.
Indeed, master.
And in the meantime...
Monsieur Mauve.
Madame de Barra.
Monsieur Duras.
That a new coat?
The wife's idea.
Be covered in mud by Tuesday,
but by then she thinks
we'll have this job,
so the coat will have been
a worthwhile extravagance.
Sound reasoning.
Gentlemen,
I've not had the pleasure.
Jean Risse and Daniel Le Vielle,
Madame Sabine de Barra.
You're all here
for the interview?
We are, and you?
The same.
Been in Paris long, madame?
Two years.
And you've worked
I know all the contractors
in the provinces.
All the gentlemen, that is.
There is no gentleman, monsieur.
I work for myself.
We all to be interviewed
at this time?
We're here early
to spy out the other candidates.
I've been in already.
Oh, how did you fare?
Spent upwards
of an hour with him.
Very detailed examination of the
work, so, you know, we shall see.
You must have impressed him.
I worked for his father.
I'm not disheartened.
He seems not disheartened, too.
Madame de Barra.
Well, gentlemen.
Best of fates to you.
Claude Moulin, madame.
Secretary to Master Le Notre.
Have you met the master before?
I have not.
Madame.
Sir.
I'm delighted to
make your acquaintance.
I have long been
an admirer of your work.
I am so pleased to attend...
These are your plans, madame?
Yes. Some are to be
seen around the country.
Others are still in progress,
not yet completed.
However, as required, there are two
sets of plans to your instructions.
The fifth and sixth, I believe.
Perhaps at the bottom...
I have examined them.
Ah. So...
May I ask you a question,
madame?
By all means, master.
Are you a believer in order?
Order? Order over landscape?
Well, I admire it.
Looking at these plans,
there seems to be no trace.
I would not agree.
I think there is pattern enough
in number six
to suggest absolutely...
Do you believe
in order over landscape?
Order seems to demand that we look
back to Rome or to the Renaissance.
What I'm saying is, surely,
isn't there something
uniquely French
as yet not celebrated by us?
Which needs the rules
All of my work
is based on a principle
you choose to deny.
I wonder that
you tender yourself
for a position with
someone you believe
to be outdated.
Sir, I...
I have nothing but admiration
for the scale of your work.
You were the first
to use such techniques.
I must apologize for any insult
that I may have unwittingly
offered you.
Perhaps, madame,
when you have been
in the public eye
and available for ridicule
for as long as my family has,
you will think again
about this conversation.
Good day to you.
Three minutes, would you say?
How was the interview? Well?
Not so well.
You have a preferred
candidate, master?
The king wants to
improve on perfection
and reach for the impossible.
I'm surrounded by barbarians.
No doubt it's death
if I fail him.
Prison, more like.
Get your hands dirty,
see what grows.
That's what your father
would have done.
You once said,
"No man, however grand,"
"knows what he wants
until you give it to him."
True.
A gentleman wishes to see you.
Monsieur Le Notre.
Here? Don't worry, I'll stay.
Come on.
Oh! Here.
Go on.
Madame will be
with you presently.
My father taught me gardening.
He encouraged me to see
beauty and re-create it,
not as an exercise,
more as an act of faith.
He told me that God put
us first into a garden,
and when we lost Eden, we were fated
to search and reinvent it again,
but only some of us have
the gift of knowing this.
Only some of us have that gift.
you attended the interview.
You moved one of my pots.
I did.
I was curious.
I will not take up
too much of your time.
I have been looking
again at your plans.
You did not care for them.
I am none the less for it.
In plain truth, I am used to it.
I did not say I did not
care for your plans.
I said I could find
no order in them.
This abundance of chaos,
this is your Eden?
My search for it.
I will spare you any repetition,
but, madame, in my world,
even anarchy is
by royal command,
and chaos must adhere to budget.
Good evening.
Later, messieurs.
Gentlemen.
Welcome to Versailles.
You found your way here without
too much effort, I hope.
The map you sent
was wonderfully accurate.
I shall need it to
get back out again.
We shall be
traveling about a bit.
Madame de Barra, Monsieur
Sualem and De Ville.
They are building
the Marly waterworks
and an aqueduct from
there to Versailles,
which we hope will alleviate the
Madame. Gentlemen.
Madame de Barra
will be constructing
the Rockwork Grove
here at Versailles.
Water, or rather the lack of it,
will be a pressing concern.
Master, the king's
ambitions are already...
Are vast and ever changing,
and our task is to meet them.
With respect, no man can
meet infinite demand.
The king's commands
are not infinite, De Ville.
They are the king's commands.
Well, quite so, but the
aqueduct can only do so much.
When we began construction,
I was under
the impression that...
The past is history.
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