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Si vous n'avez aucun atome crochu avec les films historiques en costumes, a fortiori quand ils obéissent aux règles académiques d'il y a quelques décennies, fuyez en toute hâte ! Car "Que la fête commence..." est un représentant archétypal du genre, qui mériterait sans doute de jouer le rôle de mètre-étalon pour toutes les tentatives françaises dans ce domaine. Le film prend place au cours de la Régence, période immédiatement postérieure à la mort de Louis XIV connue autant pour sa débauche scandaleuse que pour ses tentatives de modernisation, pour le meilleur et pour le pire, du Royaume de France. Ce qui caractérise au mieux ce second film de Bertrand Tavernier ne tient à pas ses décors ou ses costumes : on saluera avant tout ses dialogues, pleins de verve, de fiel et d'humour, des dialogues tels qu'on n'imagine même plus un film français capable d'en orchestrer aujourd'hui. Ensuite, trois monstres sacrés se partagent cette évocation des moeurs et de la pensée de l'aube du XVIIIème siècle. Jean-Pierre Marielle est le marquis de Pontcallec, idéaliste enragé, burlesque et pathétique; Jean Rochefort est le cardinal Dubois, politicien machiavélique et opportuniste en même temps que prêtre athée et grivois. Entre de ces deux extrêmes, le Régent, l'autocrate humaniste et progressiste incarné par Philippe Noiret, promène son idéalisme cynique et sa mélancolie résignée de débauches en salles du Conseil. Avec ces trois là, à qui Tavernier a eu l'excellente idée de lâcher la bride, difficile de rater la recette..!
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02/05/23
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Nel 1719, dopo la morte di Luigi XIV, la Francia soffre una complessa crisi. Mentre il governo è nelle mani di Filippo d'Orléans, un Reggente dagli intenti liberali e dalla vita clamorosamente libertina, la crisi economica favorisce gli sforzi del marchese di Pontcallec che, spalleggiato dagli Spagnoli, vorrebbe proclamare una repubblica in Bretagna. Della situazione approfitta l'abate Dubois, ministro e consigliere del Reggente che, nonostante la completa miscredenza, vorrebbe farsi proclamare cardinale. Il Dubois, segretamente finanziato dagli Inglesi, si serve del Pontcallec come cavia. Infatti, per quanto la sua rivoluzione sia una burletta, dopo che è stato catturato e avviato un verso la Louisiana, il losco abate lo fa catturare e giustiziare a Parigi con gli unici tre compagni di congiura. L'aristocrazia ritira dalle banche l'oro al posto delle azioni su cui si basa il sistema Law. L'abate ottiene quanto brama; ma Filippo d'Orléans lo disprezza cordialmente e sogna i futuri capovolgimenti sociali della Francia.
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01/18/23
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Intriguing, with painstakingly realistic set and art decoration.
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02/27/23
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Mike M
Tavernier has great fun with the prevailing courtly gossip - talk of couples frolicking in the streets, and crossdressing bishops - before staging a hand-held raid on a whorehouse that plays like an 18th century episode of "Cops"; one invitee to a palace orgy invites her priest along to proceedings so she won't have to waste time describing her sins at confession. The thrust (and I choose my words most carefully) is that everyone's at it... that the only law applicable in the Paris of this time was the pleasure principle. It's a policy equally evident in Tavernier's direction, with its obvious delight in scenes of carousing, sly acting (pleasure indeed to watch Noiret and Rochefort trying to out-fox each other) and gorgeous women in states of deshabilee, some of whom just happen to be playing nuns. It climaxes not with the threatened chopping off of heads, but a single hand - the first sign this decadence is set to turn to rot and revulsion, possibly revolution - yet up until then, its history and politics feel graspable, *gropeable*, even: another eminent illustration of the French tendency to do with period drama something other than simply mark a particular occasion with deadening tact, pomp and circumstance.
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01/23/11
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An delightful film that really encapsulates the spirit of the time. The actors are wonderful and seem delighted to be together. The period is intelligently described. It may not be an absolute masterpiece but we never see enough movies like that.
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02/10/23
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