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  1. Ridicule. (film) Ridicule ( French pronunciation: [ʁidikyl]) is a 1996 French period drama film directed by Patrice Leconte and starring Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant and Judith Godrèche. Set in the 18th century at the decadent court of Versailles, where social status can rise and fall based on one's ability to mete out witty ...

  2. Nov 22, 1996 · Ridicule: Directed by Patrice Leconte. With Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant, Judith Godrèche. To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

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    • Comedy, Drama, History
    • Patrice Leconte
    • 1996-11-22
  3. In the periwigged and opulent France of Louis XVI, an unwitting nobleman (Charles Berling) soon discovers that survival at court demands both a razor wit and...

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  4. Dec 6, 1996 · Imagine a time when all compliments are two-faced, when every truth is tinged with irony, when insults are the currency of humor. We have more in common with the 18th century than we might imagine. “Ridicule” is a movie that takes place at the court of Louis XVI, circa 1783, but its values would be at home around the Algonquin Round Table, or in modern comedy clubs. Wit is all. Sincerity ...

  5. Released in United States October 1996 (Shown at AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival (European Union Film Showcase) October 18-31, 1996.) In the age of Louix XVI, a modest country engineer traveled to Versailles with a plan to save the people of his village from an epidemic by asking the king to subsidize a swamp drainage system.

    • Patrice Leconte
    • Charles Berling
  6. Summaries. To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles. In the periwigged and opulent France of Louis XVI, an unwitting nobleman soon discovers that survival at court demands both a razor wit and an acid tongue. — Dawn M. Barclift.

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  8. Moved by the difficulties faced by peasants living in the mosquito-ridden swamplands near Lyon, aristocratic engineer Marquis Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy (Charles Berling) devises a plan to ...

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