One of my all time favorites.

Fresh and Exciting

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Kate Winslet plays the fictional landscape gardener Madame Sabine de Barra, hired to create a water feature at Versailles. Her work defies conventions of the time and Madame Sabine falls for the master designer André Le Nôtre even though she is haunted by her past.The film was directed by Alan Rickman, who also co-wrote it and plays the Sun King. The problem is this is a slight tale and boring. It actually could had done by being more chaotic and wilder.Winslet has little chemistry with Matthias Schoenaerts, she does better when she bumps into King Louis who pretends to be a gardener.

This is often passed over in silence but many workers died during those titanic (no pun intended) works:sometimes crushed under blocks ,they had to drain the swamps:a suicide because of the mosquitoes who transmitted marsh fever ,in other words,Paludism:men fell like flies.Saint-Simon talks about wagons of corpses ;they forced the workers into this living hell ,they had to live on the spot and were not allowed to see their wives and kids anymore ;some of them rebelled and threw blocks onto the foremen from the scaffolds ;the king called on the army.Many men were sentenced to death and hanged .Les Jardins Du Roy,it's a paradise (as depicted by the Sun King himself in the movie),but it's also that.Let's be lenient for the historical mistakes :Le Nôtre was 25 older than Louis XIV -and was not the vivacious handsome landscape gardener who woos Madame De Barra .He would not begin,in the kingdom of France , his letter with the word 'dear"!!Madame De Barra is pure fiction :one cannot imagine,at the time ,a female landscape architect -think that a hundred years later ,mathematician Sophie Germain had to take a male pseudonym to be able to continue her work on prime numbers- is thoroughly implausible ;it takes all Mrs Winslet's talent to make the character endearing.On the plus side ,in spite of an obvious lack of means (we are in the grandiose court of the Sun King,all the same!) ,there's an interesting depiction of the atmosphere of the courtiers;It's the first time I've seen a portrayal of Philippe D'Orleans ,Monsieur Frère Du Roi ,in accordance with historian Philippe Erlanger's book,which was not so in previous "Vatel" ,let alone the "Angélique Marquise Des Anges" saga : he is gay but his second wife ,La Princesse Palatine depicts him as " a brave man at war ,generous with the defeated ";actually they mutually agreed they would sleep apart,after she gave birth to heirs .A nice cinematography(superb finale) ,good acting by the whole cast ,let's forget history,and let's not deny ourselves a good moment.

Make no mistake, this film is not going to keep you riveted to your chair. In fact, I only watched it to sort of catch up with what Kate Winslet is doing more recently, and figured I would watch the first 10-20 minutes of it. It hooked me.It's a curious little movie. It tells the story of a female gardener who helps develop the gardens at Versailles. It's historical fiction. The film was directed and co-written by Alan Rickman, who plays King Louis XIV of France.Kate Winslet is (looking quite buxom and older than I remember her) quite good here as the gardener. Matthias Schoenaerts, a Belgian actor, however, seemed to me to be the most boring man ever in a film. Yawn to his role as the senior landscaper. Alan Rickman is quite delicious. I think we hardly realized what a really fine actor he was. Stanley Tucci was mildly amusing here, but his role could as easily have been left out of the film; he provided slight humor in a serious film.Worth a watch for serious film-goers.

Okay this movie A little chaos was released in 2014 and I have just now, a year later, decided to watch it. When I watched the trailer it didn't WOW me but I eventually decided to give it a chance. In the movie plays one actress; Kate Winslet, who became famous by playing the main character in Titanic; Rose.But that was 16/17 years ago. Titanic was released in 1997. and since then Kate Winslet got much older and she is now 40 years old. In this movie she has blond hair which I don't like. I think that the red hair fitted her perfectly. But that's enough about her. The movie action is monotonous and a little boring. Everything happens slowly and it' all predictable.