Sabine, a talented landscape designer, is building a garden in King Louis XIV';;s palace at Versailles. Sabine struggles with class barriers as she becomes romantically entangled with the court';;s renowned landscape artist.
10 May 1968, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, UK
31 July 1964, Messina, Sicily, Italy
22 September 1970, London, England, UK
8 August 1952, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
11 November 1960, Peekskill, New York, USA
1980
1 July 1950, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, UK
30 September 1970, Catterick, North Yorkshire, England, UK
February 06, 2017
Flawed 17th-century costume drama.
June 26, 2015
It's difficult to conjure... excitement for a mess like "A Little Chaos," a lazy and off-puttingly anachronistic feminist fantasy about an 18th-century female landscape designer who finds love while creating... one of the grandest spaces in Versailles.
June 25, 2015
Mr. Rickman has found in the Sun King a character worthy of his imperious, reptilian charisma.
August 14, 2015
True French historians should simply relax and enjoy a film that takes us on a beautifully photographed cinematic romp into a past as it likely SHOULD have been.
June 25, 2015
The story comes to life only fitfully, even with - or perhaps because of - its court intrigue and supporting characters both hissable (Helen McCrory as André's wife) and flamboyant (Stanley Tucci as the king's bisexual brother).
March 07, 2016
Alan Rickman creates a sweet, charming period piece off an anachronistic but committed, beautifully directed performance from Kate Winslet.
December 31, 2015
Rickman keeps the tone fluffy and occasionally self-aware, and even more so than most costume dramas, you always get the feeling that everyone's playing dress-up.
April 27, 2016
A Little Chaos doesn't quite convince as a depiction of life as a 17th century French aristocrat, and is longer than it needs to be, but Madame de Barra's story is an interesting one, and there's plenty to charm green-thumbed film-goers.
May 12, 2016
It is all rather too restraint and temperate an affair, hugely lacking the decadence and opulence of French aristocratic life.
December 14, 2015
How to describe that thing where you thoroughly enjoy watching something that is neither objectively good, nor enjoyably bad?
July 01, 2015
"A Little Chaos" wants us to be fascinated by a feminist who never was, then undermines her by casting an approving eye on the steamy affair she begins with her boss.
June 25, 2015
A very little chaos, and more's the pity.
