Word: louise
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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For example. Image: Daumier doctors (no, not Daumier) attend to the ailing Cardinal Mazarin. They assume grave countenances and huddle aside for a conference with Colbert, Mazarin's aid and confidant. Diagnosis: lung dropsy. Prescription: bleeding and the ingestion of rhubarb and precious stones. The opening sequences of Louis XIV...
It is into this vacuum that Louis appears. He becomes our path through the maze. Order. Its execution. In a world where over half the dialogue consists of lies, misinterpretations, meaningless rhetoric, in a world of charlatans, contentless rituals, Louis's imperative nature imparts a sense of causality. Behind his...
"WE MUST make the state a reality," Louis tells the queen mother, then sets out to do just the opposite. He manufactures, instead, a state mythology, complete with forms and rituals usurped from Catholicism, infused, sui generis, with an illusion of order. "One rules minds," he tells Colbert, "by appearances...
Here is a comedy, pretending not to be. The war of oil against water. It is as if Rossellini scoured history to find an aesthetic most antithetical to his own, and once he had found it he let it run amuck. For this reason, Louis differs from almost every other...
Rossellini in the shadows, Alice-in-Wonderland aghast with mock horror. He follows Louis's lead, loosening his camera to the dervishes of baroque pageantry, treating his subject with an iconic, reverential frontality. Only at the very end does he reassert himself. We see Louis at last in private. Suddenly...