“The King’s Daughter” – A fantasy tail [MOVIE REVIEW]
Pierce Brosnan as King Louis IV and Kaya Scodelario as Marie-Josephe D’Alember in “The King’s Daughter.” Photo courtesy of Gravitas Ventures. Director Sean McNamara in collaboration with writers Ronald Bass, Barry Berman, Laura Harrington, and James Schamus conspired to turn the Vonda N. McIntyre novel The Moon and the Sun into a fairy tale like “The Princess Bride.” They didn’t. King Louis XIV has much to his credit in his rule of France. It is 1684 and he is the longest reigning monarch in French history. His palace at Versailles is the definition of opulent luxury and is the artistic and scientific center of the kingdom. What more could the aptly named Sun King possibly want? Immortality. His scientific advisor Dr. Labarthe has told him that such immortality is possible and within his grasp. The lost city of Atlantis holds such power and if one of its mermaids can be captured and sacrificed during the upcoming solar eclipse, he will live forever. Louis’ spiritual advisor and confessor, Père La Chaise, is aghast. Only God can control life and he is in danger of committing a mortal sin. Mortal, shmortal. Louis wants what he wants when he wants it. Remarkably, or not because…
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