The King's Daughters (2000)

Original title

Saint-Cyr

Directed by

Patricia Mazuy

Genre

drama film, historical film

Country

Germany, France, Belgium

Runtime

1h 59m

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman establishes a school for impoverished noble girls in 17th century France. The institution faces conflict with rigid social rules and personal ambitions.

restrainedausteremelancholicdeliberateatmosphericsomberintimatereflective

What happens

The King's Daughters (French: Saint-Cyr) is a 2000 period drama film directed by Patricia Mazuy. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. It was adapted from the novel La maison d’Esther by Yves Dangerfield. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• The Milk of Human Kindness (2001)
• The House of Mirth (2000)
• Cities of the Plain (2000)
• Forbidden Desire - I Love My Student (2000)
• Haut les cœurs! (1999)
• The Taste of Others (2000)
• Gutland (2017)
• Home Front (2020)