Dubosc as D’Artagnan and Artus as Cyrano: trailer for The Caprices of the Child King
Michel Leclerc’s new film will be a surprising historical costume comedy.
It’s a wonderful original story that Michel Leclerc has woven, to mischievously film the Kingdom of France in the 17th century.
The director of Name of People has embroidered around Cyrano de Bergerac a historical fiction freely inspired by real characters: we will find D’Artagnan, Anne of Austria, the young Louis XIV, Molière and Madeleine Béjart, playing a funny historical comedy entitled The Whims of the Child King.
In the casting, Artus will stand under Cyrano’s nose, when Franck Dubosc will play the famous Musketeer and Doria Tillier will be the Queen of France. They will meet Julia Piaton as Madeleine Béjart and Nemo Schiffman as Molière. The young Niels Hamel Brochen will make little Louis, future Louis XIV.
The synopsis details: “1651. Louis (not yet XIV) is a young adolescent. While the Fronde threatens, his mother Anne of Austria decides to exfiltrate her son to shelter him and replaces him with a double. Louis is entrusted by D’Artagnan to Cyrano de Bergerac who hides him within the theater troupe of Madeleine Béjart and Molière. While Madeleine and Cyrano discover a common passion for young Molière, Louis discovers life and its pleasures, art and work, courage and strategy, everything that will make him the Sun King.”
The film is co-written by Michel Leclerc and Baya Kasmi, based on an original idea by Alexandre Castagnetti and Leclerc himself.
The trailer, posted online (below), promises a costume farce full of audacity and references.
The Whims of the Child King will be released in cinemas on June 24 in France, after being presented at Cannes out of competition.
