Jean de La Fontaine, the challenge is a French film directed by Daniel Vigne , released in 2007 .
Synopsis
September 5, 1661 : Fouquet , the powerful minister of the king, is arrested by order of Jean-Baptiste Colbert ; the young Louis XIV becomes sole master of the kingdom. While the other artists rush to the service of the divine right monarch, only one of them rises to affirm his support for the deposed superintendent: the artist Jean de La Fontaine . Colbert swore to bend the rebel who places art above the king.
Even in misery, La Fontaine will never give up his beliefs. He resists, amuses himself, observes, writes fables, murderous pamphlets against a despotic regime in full decadence.
Technical sheet
- Title: Jean de La Fontaine, the challenge
- Director: Daniel Vigne
- Scenario: Jacques Forgeas
- Production: Fabienne Servan-Schreiber
- Music: Michel Portal
- Photography: Flore Thulliez
- Editing: Thierry Simonnet
- Sets: Régis Nicolino
- Costumes: Florence Sadaune
- Country of origin: France
- Format: Colors – 35 mm
- Genre: Historical – Biographical
- Duration: 100 minutes
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Distribution
- Lorànt Deutsch : Jean de La Fontaine
- Philippe Torreton : Jean-Baptiste Colbert
- Sara Forestier : Perrette
- Jean-Claude Dreyfus : Monsieur de Châteauneuf
- Élodie Navarre : the Duchess of Bouillon
- Julien Courbey : Molière
- Jocelyn Quivrin : Louis XIV
- Daniel Duval : Terron
- Armelle : M lle Léotot
- Jean-Pierre Malo : Jannart
- Sylviane Goudal : The Rake
- Romain Rondeau : Jean Racine
- Mélanie Maudran : Marguerite Hessein of Sablière
- Jean-Paul Farré : Claude Barbin
- Jérémie Lippmann : Valère
- Mathieu Bisson : Boileau
- Fabienne Babe : The Duchess of Orleans
- Virginie Desarnauts : Madame de Sevigne
- Emmanuelle Galabru : M me La Fontaine
- Jean-François Perrier : Chapelain
- Christel Wallois : the Marquise de La Geunita
- Nicky Naude : Nicolas Fouquet
- Chick Ortega : A poacher
- Dominique Besnehard : The clothing merchant
Reviews
- Commeaucinema.com Link [ archive ]