Fri, Mar 10 / 7 pm
Directed by Alan Rickman
2014, UK, 112 min
Set in 1682, this visually splendid romantic drama tells the story of Sabine de Barra (Kate Winslet), a talented and strong-willed landscape designer who succeeds in challenging both gender and class stereotypes by building one of the main gardens at the Palace of Versailles for the Sun King, Louis XIV (comically portrayed by actor/director, Alan Rickman). This opportunity leads her down a path of professional and romantic entanglements with the prodigiously cunning André Le Nôtre, the King’s favourite gardener and landscape architect.
Architecture+Film, an ongoing series which focuses on architecture and design, is co-presented by the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to advancing the awareness and appreciation of Winnipeg’s built environment through public education.
