Versailles, August 1715. The Sun King (Jean-Pierre Léaud) feels pain in his leg. Fever erupts, marking the beginning of the agony of the greatest King of France. Surrounded by a horde of doctors and his closest counselors who come in turn sensing the impending power vacuum, Louis struggles to run the country from his bedchamber. Based on extensive medical records and memoirs, Serra’s contemplative, candlelit chamber drama is a wry portrait of aristocratic façade. In Latin and French.
