La_Nuit_de_Varennes

<i>That Night in Varennes</i>

That Night in Varennes

1982 French film

That Night in Varennes (Italian: Il mondo nuovo; French: La Nuit de Varennes) is a 1982 French-Italian drama film directed by Ettore Scola.[1] It is based on a novel by Catherine Rihoit. It tells the story of a fictional meeting among Restif de la Bretonne, Giacomo Casanova, Thomas Paine and Sophie de la Borde (a lady in waiting to the queen). They are all traveling together in a coach that is a few hours behind the one that is carrying King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in their flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.

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The film was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.[2] The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film by the U.S. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.[3]

Selected cast

References

  1. [1]
    "NY Times: That Night in Varennes". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-10-29. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
  2. [2]
    "Festival de Cannes: That Night in Varennes". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
  3. [3]
    "1983 Award Winners". National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. 2016. Retrieved 17 November 2016.


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