Alan Rickman Gets Behind The Director's Chair In A Little Chaos

The British actor takes the reins for the first time in more than a decade

British favourites Kate Winslet and Alan Rickman have reunited for Rickmans first film as a director in more than a decade: A Little Chaos. The upcoming romantic drama, which Rickman has also written, is centred round Winslets widow Madame Sabine De Barra, a landscape architect who is recruited to design the gardens of King Louis XIV.

Kate Winslet stars as a landscape gardener challening sexual protocols

Rickman plays the French monarch and Matthias Schoenaerts plays master landscaper Andre and Winslets love interest within the gardens of Versailles.

Stanley Tucci and Danny Webb also star in this British period piece that was showcased to largely positive reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.

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The Guardian reviewer gave the film three out of five stars and described the performances as "excellent".

She continued: "Winslet manages emotional honesty with anachronistic confines and Schoenaerts escapes with dignity.

"Though ones tolerance for Stanley Tucci as a camp aide with a heart of gold wears slightly thin, he is at least ever so good at it after the 800th time."

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Alan Rickman Gets Behind The Director's Chair In A Little Chaos