With "A people and its king", Pierre Schoeller offers in 2018 a large intimate fresco of the French Revolution.With an exceptional cast and an expert reconstruction, he seeks to rediscover the flesh of this major event, by filming as closely as possible and with as much naturalness as possible individual and collective destinies.In 2018, Pierre Schoeller presents his great work, A people and its king.A very large-scale historical film, prepared over five years by its director, with a budget of 16 million euros and an exceptional cast to tell the French Revolution through the prism of the relationship between the people of Paris and the King Louis XVI.A relationship examined in its carnal aspect, its feeling, a relationship made up of silences, glances, and lightings which want to be "natural" on destinies.There is the fate of Françoise (Adèle Haenel), a young mother and washerwoman who will mobilize with other women.That of Louis XVI of course (Laurent Lafitte), that of Basile (Gaspard Ulliel), a young man and lover of Françoise.There are also Robespierre (Louis Garrel), Marat (Denis Lavant), among others.With its hundreds of extras, its historical accuracy, its sets all reconstituted in France, and therefore its excessive ambition, A People and Its King recounts the life of France as that of a body politic, one and the same being who literally goes decapitate.To tell this story, Pierre Schoeller wanted to give direct access to this founding episode of French identity.He thus placed his camera as close as possible to the faces and bodies of the various protagonists and, in order to illuminate them - both literally and figuratively - insisted on working almost exclusively with natural lights.Film-sum on the Revolution, intimate historical drama, A people and its king is not the most accessible film on the subject.Notably because he clings to the people and doesn't let go, favoring shots on faces to capture words, looks, movements.This staging, however, offers magnificent images, where actors like Adèle Haenel and Gaspard Ulliel are sublimated by photography.To shed light on them, the director wanted his approach to be as authentic as possible.Julien Hirsch signs the light, he made all my films.There, the challenge was simple: no electricity!Let's talk about the nights: torches, torches, candles, lanterns, the glow of the fireplace or the glow of the glassmaker's oven, chandeliers in the Salle du Manège.The sources are in the field, and very often manipulated by the actors and extras.This gives this so singular light, a living light like flames, animated.It does not stop vibrating, moving on the faces and the decorations.A reactive light like a rebellious animal.It can be very gentle and at other times very invigorating.We must accept the penumbra or, on the contrary, very strong bursts of light.Let's talk about days.I wanted them as bright as summer.Solar.Studying the revolutionary chronology, I was struck by the repetition of decisive facts in June, July, August.Summer 89, the Bastille, summer 91, the flight to Varennes, summer 92, the insurrection in Paris and the capture of the Palais des Tuileries.Summer 2017, shooting of the film!… And I will add another detail: the Manège room had large windows facing due south.And luckily our decor too.Hence this warm, summery light which gives its main tone to the days of the film.Unforgettable in the role of the young Basil, first an admirer of the king before taking up arms, Gaspard Ulliel concludes a busy year 2018, with the poster of 9 fingers, Eva, A people and its king and The Ends of the world.Unfortunately passed away on January 19, 2022 at the age of 37, he will appear one last time during his lifetime in 2019 on the big screen in Sibyl.His last two films, Coma and More than ever, are expected for November 2022.During our meeting with the actor for A People and Its King, he had these words to define him:What seemed to me singular, to take up a subject and bring a new look to it, by weaving the historical aspect with a poetic, sometimes metaphysical distance, and a more intimate, human approach.There are the great figures, Marat, Robespierre, Queen Audu, the king.But also completely fictional and anonymous characters.There is the intimate and the political, and the individual and the collective.It is the sum of these characters which shows that the Revolution crosses the whole of society.Vice-versa 2: Pixar formalizes the filmDisney and Pixar formalized the sequel to "Inside Out" at the D23 convention.A feature film that will take place during Riley's teenage years and will be released in the summer of 2024.