A Little Chaos (2014)

Directed by

Alan Rickman

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 695 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman landscape gardener is hired to design and build a water feature at the Palace of Versailles in the court of Louis XIV. She wrestles with the politics of the court and her own personal grief while working on the project.

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What happens

A Little Chaos is a 2014 British period drama film directed by Alan Rickman, based on a story conceived by Alison Deegan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rickman and Jeremy Brock. It stars Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Rickman, Stanley Tucci, Helen McCrory, Steven Waddington, Jennifer Ehle and Rupert Penry-Jones. It was financed by Lionsgate UK and produced by BBC Films. The second film directed by Rickman, after his 1997 debut The Winter Guest, and the last before his death in 2016, it was also the second collaboration of Rickman and Winslet after their 1995 film Sense and Sensibility. Production took place in London in mid-2013, and it premiered as the closing night film at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on 13 September 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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