The hard last days of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
The court of Louis XVI is stripped down to its faded, festering shell in The Flood, a haunting study of the king’s final days in which the luxurious trappings of…
Guillame Canet and Mélanie Laurent open Locarno
The famous French proverb: “Après moi, le déluge” (“Après moi, le déluge”)“After me the deluge” is often attributed to Louis XV, who used it to express his complete disinterest in…
