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Audiences will respond favorably to its overall warmth, and the motion picture academy may, too.
Mike Clark, USA Today
Ridicule
Wit is the ultimate weapon.
1996 · 1h 42m · R
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Patrice Leconte
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Ridicule
Overview
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Director and cast
- Patrice Leconte Director
- Charles Berling as Le Marquis Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy
- Jean Rochefort as Le Marquis de Bellegarde
- Fanny Ardant as Madame de Blayac
- Judith Godrèche as Mathilde de Bellegarde
- Bernard Giraudeau as L'Abbée de Vilecourt
- Bernard Dhéran as Bernard Dhéran
- Carlo Brandt as Milletail
- Jacques Mathou as Abbé de l'Épée
- Urbain Cancelier as Louis XVI
- Albert Delpy Cast
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