Les caprices de l'Enfant-Roi
If I'm honest, the wife and I went to see this movie more for the air conditioning in the cinema than for the cast or theme. Furthermore, the (very expensive) seats were super comfortable, and I fully expected my jetlagged wife to fall asleep at this semi-historical semi-comedy. Instead, we laughed, we were taken, and we really enjoyed ourselves. Les Caprices de l'Enfant-Roi starts with a notice that it's all historical, it's just that historians disagree on that point. Set during the regency in between Louis XIII and Louis XIV's reigns, it focuses on an early teen Louis whose mother decides to hide him in the countryside with the help of a bumbling d'Artagnan. D'Artagnan brings Louis to Cyrano de Bergerac, a grumpy poet whose sense of honor and taste for duels has made him many enemies. Cyrano in turn decides that hiding Louis and himself amidst the theatre troupe of a young Molière is the way to go. Throughout, Louis discovers about real life, love, and the things that really matter, Molière discovers who he truly loves, so does Cyrano, and it all ends in a tragedy. The really great thing about the movie though is that it's referential in really clever ways to Cyrano de Bergerac (the 19th century play) so that if you have seen or read that play you will enjoy the movie so much more. A pleasant surprise that we'll have to show our daughter.
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