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  • thereis nothing gay or notin showing of. he had to do it. for survival. i have seen apparently effeminate males being fiercest fighters. equally for women. not so tender a gender.

    all in all, it's about the beauty and balance (helas,another martial quality) of his display. the music is absolute bliss, cover version by Haendel, over the Channel, perhaps. Merci, Ms JB Lulluy

  • How extraordinary! I'd like to see the whole film

  • Thank you so much for uploading! Amazing!

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  • Thank you! But I was hoping to see the bit of rehearsal too. I can't remember exactly which part it was from, but the music from from Lully's opera, Armide, which is my all time favorite!

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  • Thanks so much for posting these scenes from the film. They will forever change our attitudes about the performance practices associated with this music and the dance.

  • he is not gay he is a libertine, means he can and should do "ce qu'il veut, quand il veut"

  • L un des plus beaux films d histoire de Louis XIV

  • @patdaho ...et l'un des plus faux, il suffit de lire Saint Simon pour connaître le triste sire.

  • Vive la monarchie française ! Vive Dieu ! Vive le roi !

  • Vive la France !! de la part d'une petite belge ;)

  • quelle epoque de faux! mais la musique est fabuleuse!

  • quelle epoque de faux!

  • Lully revu par Carl Orff… la Belle Danse revue par les chipendales, bof…

  • As long the king is dancing he cannot lead the troops against his neighbours. Unfortnately Louis the 14th stopped with his hobby and started to do things for which he was much less prodigeed.

  • history repeats itself the French full of pomp and circumstance strut around Europe and the world the French Bourbons hand alcansado africa and america had glorious France over their enemies but just comiensa war are released Ensim all of the powerful and glorious France Austrians especially the English are noble warrior as the Germans but the British did not do more than hide in his island with his pathetic army

  • Je suis un Libre Vietnamin et j'adore la culture francaise toujours.

  • Magnifique!!!!!!J'adore cela!

  • Vive la fistule anale du bon Roi Louis Capet

  • UNE MUSIQUE FANTASTIQUE !! Le XVIIe siècle, le grand siècle, tout comme le siècle de Napoléon, époque où la France était glorieuse, grande, rayonnante dans le monde !

  • @ppagnol oui, mais maintenant la France cest ne pas grande :-(

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  • Ce ne plus un enfant, Madame. C'est un roi!

    Classic!

  • Magnificent music and film! Incredible that 27 gave thumbs down, but who knows what planet they are from. I would say, Texas style, "Y'all plumb crazy!". By the way, the US is not the only harbor of ignoramuses. They are, unfortunately, everywhere, in tutto il mondo. Louis XIV was such a great patron of the arts (unfortunately, also that of war). Lully, a genius.

  • l'apogée de l'ambition de l'Homme ! cela ce ressent a chaque instant dans l'epoque baroque, a chaque note. La plus belle musique du monde !

  • le roi ,le pere due peuple français vive le roi ! vivement la fin des republicains

  • @alain2866 Je finis par être de ton avis...

  • Según las escenas de esta pelicula Lully era homosexual, eso es cierto?.

  • Why do people post this is "gay" somehow?

    It's not "gay". Nowadays' generations, fed on cheap TV "shows", easy American movies, standing for 30 hours in a queue to get the newest iPod -what do you know on the impact such spectacles had on those who had the luck to be "chosen" to be present at them?

    The mighty Sun king that dances - not for the sake of his own joy - but to impersonate the greatness and power of the Monarchy, ready to punish as to give grace.

    I WISH I HAD SEEN THIS MOVIE...

  • @2serveand2protect yeah young who dance prctilly nude in ibiza look more gay

  • Vive la France!

  • Toutes les scènes de danse de Louis sont la meilleure partie du film !!!

    Quelle beauté, quelle grâce, quelle lumière !

    J'aimerais un DVD avec tous ces ballets.

  • LULLY? I always knew that his real name was Lulli...

  • @2serveand2protect What you always knew was wrong. He was born Lulli and asked to become Lully, which was granted to him in 1661, aged 29, when he became french. By the way, I find this film is terrible.

  • @Peyregrosse

    He WAS BORN "LULLI" - where and when?

    By the way - I don't find the thing of any importance...

  • I can't help it, but I just adore his butt. He has such a brilliant pose!

  • C. Carretier calculated his ancestry to be approximately 28% French, 26% Spanish, 11% Austro-German and 10% Portuguese, the rest being Italian, Slavic, English, Savoyard and Lorrainer.

  • Louis was a real diva!

  • vive la france , vive le roi

    

  • i wish they showed the actually gay shit

  • shouldn't lully be conducting since he wrote this song? lol (instead of flirting)

  • Louis danced, Obama plays basketball.

  • @YehUdoMe The male dancers in these scenes, dressed as they are, are completely masculine. The dances are displays - in the context of their time - of the power of the king and of the state. That you wouldn't see this is of course not surprising, given that you use the word "gay" as a pejorative.

  • @lichtbroeder Why is the word "gay" not to be used as a pejorative?

  • @YehUdoMe Stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupiiii­d, just sayin' !

    Crétiin d'amerlock, t'as la culture d'une huître et tu te permets de juger ce que tu ne connais pas visiblement, imbécile heureux ! --'

  • L'Etat vacille on dirait. Il faut admettre que ça doit pas être facile de danser sur des talons aussi hauts.

  • Pfff... quel dommage de massacrer la beauté hestétique et musicale d'un film en faisant surjouer tous les acteurs...

    La musique de Lully n'en demeure pas moins superbe.

  • cool very good video

  • why was i thinking tom cruise?

  • I think this is closest we will get to the actual court of Louis XIV. Brilliantly done!

  • never thought that baroque music can be so powerful. kudos to the cinematographer.

  • Which piece is this by Jean-Baptiste Lully? thanks

  • Mais qui est ce type @2:26? un diplomate qui n'aime pas l'ascension de lully? un allemand? un vénitien? même avec l'accent je ne réussis pas à comprendre d'où il sort x)

  • On peut voir dans les yeux de Lully que ça vie se résumait à Louis XIV, au royaume de France.

    Très belle performance d'acteur...

    Benoît Magimel est exceptionnel !

  • Lully originated the Tragedy Lyrique, which is a French genre..regardless of where he originated.

  • Vive le roi le seule qui peut parler au non de la france

  • @alain2866

    ..au "non de la france"?

  • Vive le roi le seule qui peut parler au non de la france

  • Personne n'est dieu sur cette Terre...

  • LULLY MUSIC IS LIKE DEEP TECHNO TO ME SO POWERFUL !

  • me encanta

    

  • Graciassss!

  • Pourquoi la musique de o' carolan est elle passée dans la tradition Irlandaise

    et que cette pu... de belle musique de lully et es autres est complètement méconnue de la plupart de français

    c'est pas juste...

  • @ansliabhdraiochta

    ...demandez aux franc-maçons, aux positivistes, aux modernistes extrèmes, aux plagiats des Pierre-Boulezes, Sarkozyes et Chiracs de ce monde, aux idiots, aux facilistes, aux ignorants, aux détestables, aux "bien éclairés", aux sistèmes d'éducation, aux idéologies post-jacobines, aux convaicus d'un progrès irrésistible, aux superbes d'aujourd'hui et...à nous mêmes!

  • @Rotebuehl1 Ils nous diront...."on y est pour rien", ou une connerie du genre "c'est le sens de l'histoire"....Sans peser le poids de sens et encore moins d'Histoire.

  • @ElGladiateur

    Voilà!

  • @ElGladiateur

    Voilà, c'est ça - malheureusement! Ou heureusement, car on ne fait la vraie affirmation de l'authentique, ni la preuve de la poigne des convictions et des principes, que dans l'adversité! Ont pourrait même dire, que les temps d'aujourd'hui sont des temps féconds! C'est les temps de la séparation du bon grain de l'ivraie!

  • YESSSSSS!!!!!!!! :-)

  • 3:21 to 5:27 (Idylle Sur La Paix: Air Pour Madame La Dauphine) basically equals a story of my life. I'd exactly recreate this scene for my birthday party if I had the means to do so.

  • Je suis amoureux de cette époque... Notre histoire est magnifique, vive la france !

  • @FrenchieMan77 Moi, je suis Allemand, mais tu as raison :-)

  • @FrenchieMan77 un roi qui se meurt dans sa luxure au lieu de défendre sa nation et de rétablir l'égalité parmi les siens, il s'est pris pour un Dieu et a régné en tyran supposons qu'il ait régné prck il passait tout son temps justement dans ces futilités...j'adore aussi le moyen âge mais plutôt pour son côté chevaleresque et où l'honneur avait encore de l'importance, absolument pas représenté ici, des hommes déguisés en femme avec des perruques et des talons quelle virilité!

  • The grandeur of the Sun King wouldn’t be the same if Lully wasn’t on the French Court

  • @HitlodeuPT lol not really!! The sun king isnt the sun king because he danced but because he have do a lot of modern thing and france kingdom was in the top. Is like u say that moliere ll be not the same whiout lully music then today moliere continues to sell a lot of books.

  • @HitlodeuPT lully have created " Grand dieu sauve le roy", who is today the national english anthem. I dont thing grandeur of sun king come to music or dance, but come to how he have change a lot of thing in the france kingdom "very modern". Artists come where have modernity, and the king have created this area. Moliere continues to sell books today, and lully homosexuality was tolered.

  • bravo Gérard Corbiau e belle le scene 

  • absolutely gorgeous, thanks for the upload!

  • le roi soleil et ses talons rouges...^^

  • ok, if thats is Loui Dancing then were is Marie Antoinette, god im so confused someone please help,

  • @Orchidbeautyful Are you drunk ? LOL  This Louis XIV , not Louis XVI .

  • @Orchidbeautyful

    "If that's Louis dancing - where is Marie Antoinette?"

    ???

    Strange how it's easy to notice that someone's American...

  • @2serveand2protect You are about 100 years off. Wrong Louis

  • @manuelherrera777

    What are you talking about? Lully lived on the court of "Le Roi Soleil" - The Sun King - the greatest King France ever had - Louis the 14th.

    It's someone up here that asked "where is Marie-Antoinette"? (probably a yank, as always)...

  • @2serveand2protect Is Luigi XIV not XVI .... ....

  • @TheQuickgold I know, man...

  • @2serveand2protect beacuese this is Louis XIV , not XVI his wife was Maria Teresa of Spain

  • @astrofabio68

    Yes.

    Thank You, but I know that perfectly...

    It was someone else's asking.

  • @2serveand2protect c'est le Roi Louis XIV pas le Roi Louis XVI, qui a été marié a SAI la archiduchesse Marie Antoinette d'Autriche.

  • @GrafvonPlanken07

    I know.

    (je sais - correct ?) :)

    It was someone else who asked for "Marie Antoinette"...

  • Hey big Spender

  • LULLY ROCKS  !!

  • A wonderful interpretation of the idea of absolutism. It appears that the king takes the persuasive powers of the arts to strengthen his own power. Beautiful!

  • gay

  • @SaetaMelanka Obviously, you own the problem

  • @SaetaMelanka That's what makes it beautiful :D

  • Thank you! it is hard to find cinema this enchanting or this historical, in our nation

  • i like watching this clip...makes me wakeup. i watched about 15 times.

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  • I am in love with the dansing in this film! Even though he was an arrogant asshole (look what he did to Fouquet), I have so much more respect for Louis XIV knowing that he actually did baroque danse. Love it!

  • Fouquet was probably the True Iron Mask

  • @gipcambero No he was not. Fouquet was actually in the same prison (Pignerol) at the same time period with the iron mask which made him an unlikely candidate to be the true iron mask.

  • L'histoire de la France est beau et drammatique. Qu'elle combination!

  • omg does anyone know where i can find this movie? it looks so cool!

  • Magnífica ambientación de la época . el SOL y sus planetas . las virtudes , gracias de los heroes y dioses de la antiguedad se materializan en uno de los hombres mas radiantes de la historia "El Rey Sol "

  • Well.. it's french opera, or italian opera? nah.. in fact it's Lully Opera, and that's really all.

  • No

    NottinghamForest22 is a bitch

  • Yep, HE / SHE is!

  • sometimes, i realise that people are completely narrow-minded when they speak of Lully. Yes, Lully is an italian composer and spent all his career in France. That's a fact. Another fact is that stylistically, Lully was a master of french baroque style, completely in opposition with italian opera. that's all.

  • @contretenor33 You must consider Jean Baptiste Lulli as a very precious gift from Italians to the French, and would humbly remind you that no French born composer work comes any close to our Jean Baptiste Lulli, my friend it is the blood which is running through his vein, it is Italian.

  • @LordMSh That's quite a bit of snobbish grandeur about a nation that can't elect their politicians like mature people, can't treat their women like mature people and is generally infested with illegal organisations from medieval times. I think Lully rather *stands out* here, if you catch my drift.

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  • @LordMSh Um. Not to be rude, but the French somewhat did "give" at least a fraction of what the Italians gave. It depends on which domains you're talking about, but still, such a statement is totally unreasonable. Musically speaking there are actually far more germanic composers than italian or French, I believe.. But anyway, it would be nice not to mindlessly crush one culture in order to give light to the one you're trying to defend. It sort of kills your intitial purpose. Thanks. ;)

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  • @Bennuist type the best french composer in youtube, u ll hear a lot of music very famous using in a lot of publicity or movie.

  • His blood was not of importance in light of his destiny.

    His mind was at home in the only place, in these times, which could give him a gracious name among the greatest of all : the Kingdom of France.

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  • Hi !

    I'm French and I want say for imdiboss, it's true !

    Jean Baptiste Lully was born in Italia, but he came in France after, because he love Louis XIV ( Louis 14), and he want to play with him !!

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  • Oh for heavens sake stop fight over his nationality. He was born in Italy and was all dedicated to his career and the king = France his whole life. And he wanted to create a French opera opposed to the Italian opera. Period.

  • @gunnersaurus9 I love the martyr's fronde

  • LOL and the pasta are Chinese food introduced in Italy

  • and the pizza comes from egypt

  • The geographical text of Muhammad al-Idrisi, compiled for the Norman King of Sicily Roger II in 1154 mentions itriyya(spaghetti) manufactured and exported from Norman Sicily:  West of Termini there is a delightful settlement called Trabia.[11] Its ever-flowing streams propel a number of mills. Here there are huge buildings in the countryside where they make vast quantities of itriyya which is exported everywhere: to Calabria, to Muslim and Christian countries.

    Marco Polo in China 1271!!!

  • Con estas escenas se pueden constatar las palabras de Voltaire en "El Siglo de Luis XIV", cuando afirma que hay cuatro grandes etapas en la historia intelectual de la humanidad: La antiguedad griega, la antiguedad latina, el Renacimiento y El Siglo de Luis XIV.

  • Just in the same way the great English composer Handel was indeed German! I think that is more in the general knowledge than that Lully was indeed Italian yes!

  • No, he's very much french.

  • Great French baroque music by Lully....but...well, did you know that Lully was Italian ? His true name was Gian Battista Lulli, born in Florence in 1632 !

    Interesting to know that the father of French "Musique de Court" was an eclectic and genial Italian musician.

    I think not many French people know this.

    Hélas, les Français, j'espère ne vous avoir pas trop troublés avec cette nouvelle....

    FS

  • Cher ami du baroque..

    Lulii est ne en Italie.. Tout a fait exact

    Mais. Saviez vous quil renonca a sa nationalite pour devenir Français..

    Finalement, cette question de la nationalite est, en fait, tout a fait derisoire et sans utilite.

    Lulli était un merveilleux musicien et quil soit italien ou francais ne change rien a son immense talent. by the other hand, yes, a lot of people knows that!

    kind regards

  • We all know it actually thanks lol

    But we consider all those Italians who came to France at the time, (when Italy as a country didn't exist btw) as French. And they often did so themselves. They learnt their craft or found their inspiration here too. We're used to Italian immigration in Frnace i'd say a lot of us have Italian origins... that doesn't make us less French. Are the Itlian of Norman descent not Italian but French to you?...

  • Oh btw, you musn't have understood the scene either because the guy insulting him and spitting at Lully's face says "Peste de Florentin! etc" and mentions his Italian origins...

  • Just to put an end to this "querelle" generated just by a historic consideration (not very much appreciated by French friends, evidently): then let's take the example of Couperin, who celebrated the Apothéose de Corelli et de Lully, and created "Les Gouts Réunis". In the same way as Romans integrated les Gaules in their civilization, and Sarkozy married Carla Bruni, let's enjoy good music both from the Corelli style and from the Lully style, independently from their passport.

    Buon Natale.

  • @francosperoni

    Every french who likes this music know that Lulli comes from Florence and also his italian name was first Lulli and when he took the french nationality, he changed the "i" by a "y" because it looks french. But is it really a matter of nationality when the music is beautiful and when a country, more than another, gave the possibility to a talent to become a genius ?

  • @lejul75 Handel was once told that he wasn't "English", and he asserted that he was more English than his detractor, whereas he CHOSE to be English, and Parliament deemed it to be so. Nationality is as much a matter of the heart as it is an accident of birth.

  • @lichtbroeder For example I was born in Holland, i lived nearly all my life in France and i happen to be English.

  • Splendid to the eye & the ear!

  • nul ne peut faire de l'ombre à l'astre solaire lorsque de ses rayons il irradie la face du monde sauf peut être l'aigle quand il déploie ses ailes...

  • Quelle étrange sensation...j'aime mon roi !

  • Did Lully also create the dances that accompany his music? If so, have we a record of them, or are they (in the film) conjecture versus recreation?

  • Many dances in the court performance were made by Pierre Beauchamp, great dancer and private teacher of the sun king. He establish the 5 positions in the classical dance and create a notation writing system for the steps.

  • There are many books and people working in this area. But this film's dances do not represent mainstream Baroque reconstruction. The stamping is counter to instructions to land softly, and I think leg gestures were lower and less 'attacked' than 'articulated.' The choreographer has done reconstructed works, but now approaches modern from a Baroque perspective, a very different aesthetic. I find it jarring since I think I know what it should look like, but maybe that's what the directors wanted.

  • Un film magnifique qui met en lumière l'un des talents souvent méconnu du plus grand de nos rois. Car s'il était un grand architecte, un brillant stratège et un mécène des plus inspirés, notre Roi dansait aussi à la perfection.

    Hélàs, que nos dirigeants sont fades à présent, toutes obédiances confondues...

  • Quelle musique! magnificence! :o)

  • The stumble at the end caught me by surprise! It was a great place to end the video because it is unexpected. These are stunning scenes, and they are so enchanting.

  • You should have put the scene where the guy shouts: I fuck you my prince xD

  • J'adore l'epoque baroque.

    Vive la France!

  • nice o love this, always when i drunk, and sober all the time.

  • Hmm, I dident get it :P

  • Even with wigs, makeup, silk and satin, the dancing and appearance of the dancers, is totally MASCULINE. So much for modern notions of this.

  • THANK YOU! I've been arguing this for a long time!

  • The shot when Louis first emerges onto the stage with the fire all around him is one of the most amazing I've seen in ages. I have to see this film. The combination of brilliant music and such an amazing realisation of 17th century France is not to be missed! Thanks so much for posting this clip.

  • Absoluely beautiful, stunning

  • ooo very interesting :D I want to see that movie <3

  • One of the best re-creations of the court of Louis XIV of the late 17th century. These guys were as wild as any hip-pop band currently performing.

  • indeed, indeed. although musically, an art form, that is baroque composition and the tasteless degeneratic beats with some quasi-poetric attempts, are as different as night and day.

  • @classicalsteve in my opiniom, they were quite sick people.what can you expect of people who hate hygiene and a simple bath?who uses perfumes instead of cleanliness?SICKNESS

  • @igalflint That is a pop myth

  • @classicalsteve : good comparison.

  • I'm not really on to classic music, but this is actually really nice! It's just full of power and just.. beautiful!

    For anyone who wanna see the movie, it's on YouTube in 14 parts.

  • Thanks very much for the info, I hadnt noticed that now it is uploaded!

  • its baroque music, before the classical period

  • It is too bad that Louis XIV of France and Elizabeth I were not alive at the same time . . . what a pair they would have made . . . or not. . . . can not think of two rulers with more ability to use symbolism!

  • What a wonderful comment! Thank you!

  • Thank you so much. I can't find the DVD anywhere so I can at least look at this. It looks wonderful

  • I simply adore the second dance scene: Louis's steps are so regal, so powerful, yet beyond this imperial grandeur there is still something so passionate, so artistic in them. The music is just flawless. I was particularly impressed when Lully vehemently drew out his viol and joined the orchestra, as is it was the only way he could express his devotion to his king. This scene is perfect!

  • L'etat, c'est moi! Trés bon. J'aime le vidéo. Il est possible, que le film est payable en allemagne dans une shop?

  • son grace extreme!!!!