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("The Taking of Power by Louis XIV," $29.95, not rated; "Rossellini's History Films," $59.95, not rated).
Richard Brody on Roberto Rossellini's The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966).
The ultimate movie on the connection between power and style is Roberto Rossellini's "Taking of Power by Louis XIV".
In "The Taking of Power by Louis XIV," from 1966 (Criterion), he unfolds the high political drama behind the dazzling court culture of Versailles.
Even in its mutilated form, the film is a wonder on its own terms, as well as an important prelude to the series of history films that Rossellini made, starting in 1966 with "The Taking of Power by Louis XIV".
For some filmmakers, Italian Neo-Realism meant going into the street and filming stories of contemporary life; for Roberto Rossellini, whose 1966 film "The Taking of Power by Louis XIV" I discuss in this clip, it meant filming history on the wing.
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