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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DEPARDIEU,GERARD
EAN: 9780788827013
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788827014
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 07, 2001
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 12867
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Vatel is hired by the Prince de Conde to impress King Louis XIV with a feast, but Vatel finds himself having an affair with the King's mistress.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 6-MAY-2003
Media Type: DVD
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Boring, boring, oh so boring...
Half an hour into the movie, I honestly was bored to tears and nearly cringed at this entire film. The only thing that's good about this film is the visuals, but flashy visuals don't mean anything if there's not a story. After just 20 minutes I got tired of watching the actors do nothing more but turn up their noses in snobbery and trying to acquire a French accent, which is not the least bit natural or believable. And Uma Thurman is absolutely boring and lackluster. In general, Vatel was boring. ... Read More
Rating:  - VATEL:Your life is not your own when owned by the King
No matter how much the King may says he favours you,in the end you are still his property,and therefore dispensible! This is the harsh reality of Court Life under the reign of Louis X1V.Everyone is a puppet,dancing,singing,cooking and even performing sexually for the pleasure of the King.Enter a bankrupt Prince who seeks to regain the favour of the King by planning the most sumptuous weekend entertainments of spectacle and mirth.He calls upon his chief steward,Vatel (Depardieu) as the only one who ... Read More
Rating: - Like "Babette's Feast" - this is a culinary gem.
The French are noted for their FOOD, and this is a movie about GOURMET FOOD.
If you like a good story - that is also mouth watering to watch - this is the movie for you. DVD makes everything better!
Rating:  - emotionally and dramatically flat and lifeless; set decoration is the only lively thing on display
Roland Joffe directed two masterpieces: The Killing Fields & The Mission. But those two films, directed in 1984 & 1986, were made twenty or more years ago. I'd recommend either of those two films to anybody but Vatel I would recommend only to those viewers who can enjoy a film for its look, its set design and its attention to period detail even when the story and characters themselves are not all that captivating.
Vatel is a film that should have everything going for it. As mentioned ... Read More
Rating: - Gerard Depardieu is Brilliant
Vatel, perhaps a weak title to a spectacular film; it recreates the excesses of the French court in its pre-off-with-their-heads-phase. In order to escape bankruptcy, the gout afflicted Viscount must entertain the King so sumptuously and so entreatingly, that the King may commission a war with Holland, thereby paying the Viscount's debts. To keep the King and his courtiers entertained, it was no small thing, so the entire countryside is enlisted in the feasts and entertainment. None will be paid unless the ... Read More
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