The Affair of the Necklace
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The Affair of the Necklace

Year:
Duration:
USA:118 min
Genres:
Drama | History
IMDB rate:
6.1
Director:
Charles Shyer
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2001-11-30
Filming Locations: Alincourt, Ardennes, France
Earnings
Opening Weekend: $125,523 (USA) (2 December 2001)
Gross: $430,313 (USA) (13 January 2002)
Cast
Actor
Character
Miranda Pleasence
Miranda Pleasence
The Affair of the Necklace
Hilary Swank
Jeanne St. Remy de Valois
Jonathan Pryce
Cardinal Louis de Rohan
Simon Baker
Rétaux de Vilette
Adrien Brody
Count Nicolas De La Motte
Brian Cox
Minister Breteuil
Joely Richardson
Marie-Antoinette
Christopher Walken
Count Cagliostro
Hayden Panettiere
Young Jeanne
Simon Kunz
Minister of Titles
Paul Brooke
Monsieur Bohmer
Peter Eyre
Monsieur Bassenge
Frank McCusker
Abel Duphot
Simon Shackleton
Louis XVI
Hermione Gulliford
Nicole Leguay d'Oliva
Geoffrey Hutchings
President D'Aligre
James Vaughan
Magistrate Titon
Jonathan Newth
Magistrate de Marce
Kristina Bill
Irène de Valois
James Larkin
Darnell de Valois
Diana Quick
Madame Pomfré
Helen Masters
Madame Campan
Victoria Shalet
Colleen
Christophe Paou
Pierre Charron
Michel D'Oz
Marquis de Favras (as Michael D'Oz)
Donna Flandrin
Dowager in Boat
Liz Baker
Dowager in Boat
Dick Brannick
Gamekeeper
Daisy Bevan
The Princess Royal
Thomas Dodgson-Gates
The Dauphin
Caroline Loncq
Madame de Largo
Illona Linthwaite
Madame Briffault
John Grillo
Dr. Legear
Mélodie Berenfeld
Mademoiselle Subur
Niky Wardley
Madame de Neiss
Bill Thomas
Tailor
Emma Wride
Tailor's Daughter
Stephen Noonan
Camille Desmoulins
Emma Pike
Mademoiselle in Pink
William Chubb
Gendarme
Hallie Meyers-Shyer
Demonstrating Girl
Jocelyn Linder
Angry Demonstrator
John Comer
Angry Demonstrator (as John Commer)
Angus Wright
Sanson
Christopher Logue
Sir Hargrave
Cate Fowler
Lady Standish
Skye McCole Bartusiak
Dove (scenes deleted)
Eva Decastelo
(uncredited)
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Trivia
The mansion shown belonging to the Cardinal Louis de Rohan is actually the Chateau de Vaux-Le-Vicomte, built between 1658 and 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances to Louis XIV. To ensure there was enough room for the Chateau and the planned gardens, three villages were bought and demolished. Fouquet was unfortunetly not able to enjoy the property for very long. In August of 1661, a few days after a ball to which Lous XIV was invited, to celebrate the completion of the Chateau, the King had Fouquet arrested, charged with misappropriation of public funds, to pay for the lavish estate's construction. Fouquet was imprisoned for life and his wife exiled. The King bought or confiscated many of the furnishings and works of art on the property and hired the team responsible for its construction to design and build the Palace of Versailles. The property was returned to Mme Fouquet in the mid 1670ies. The Chateau was never the property of the Cardinal nor did he ever live there. In 1705, shortly after the death of her husband and son, Madame Fouquet sold the Chateau to the Marshall Villars, one of Louis XIV's most trusted generals. He bought it sight unseen. His son would sell the property to the Duke de Praslin in 1764 and his descendants kept the property for over 100 years. It was eventually bought, in a sad state of disrepairs and with the gardens overgrown and uncared for, by the Sommier family, who restored the gardens and the Chateau. The Sommier still own Vaux-le-Vicomte and the Chateau is now open to the public. The Chateau has cropped up frequently in movies and TV shows, most memorably as the home "rebuilt stone by stone in California" by the villain Drax in the James Bond film "MOONRAKER".
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In the 1938 film Marie Antoinette (1938), Norma Shearer refused any complimentary make-up for the final scene showing her character going to the guillotine. She wanted to look as haggard and exhausted as the real queen had in her final moments. In the final scene for this movie, Joely Richardson expressed the same effects as she tried to convey as her reflection can be viewed in the water bucket beside guillotine before the beheading.
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Quotes
Count Nicolas De La Motte: [surprising Jeanne and Retaux] It's not everyday a man gets to view his wife making love from this vantage point.
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Minister of Titles: [voice over during Jeanne punishment] Voleur! The mark of a thief.
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Marie-Antoinette: [to Breteuil] Why do the people hate me? 'Wasn't always so.
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Photos from cast
Ben Miles Miranda Pleasence
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