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The King's Daughters is a french film of genre Drama directed by Patricia Mazuy with Isabelle Huppert
The King's Daughters (2000)
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Add to a movie listThe King's Daughters (French: Saint-Cyr) is a 2000 French period drama film directed by Patricia Mazuy. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. It was adapted from the novel La maison d’Esther by Yves Dangerfield.
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In March 1685, Louis XIV’s final wife Madame de Maintenon wishes to set up a boarding school for young daughters of noble families that have fallen on hard times, the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, a school where girls receive a pious but liberal education. The first difficulty is that the students from the provinces all speak different regional languages and dialects and the first task is to teach them all to speak a standardised Parisian French.Actors
Isabelle Huppert
(Madame de Maintenon)
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
(Louis XIV)
Simon Reggiani
(l’évêque)
Jean-François Balmer
(Racine)
Nina Meurisse
(Lucie de Fontenelle)
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