The Ideal Palace
(2019)
★ 6.9 IMDb · 153 votes
Year: 2019
Runtime: 104 мин
Country: France
Director: Nils Tavernier
Cast: Жак Гамблен, Летиция Каста, Флоранс Томассен, Bernard Le Coq, Наташа Линдингер, Zélie Rixhon, Эрик Савен, Louka Petit-Taborelli, Aurélien Wiik, Julien Personnaz
Plot
Follows Joseph Ferdinand Chavel a French postman who built a palace in the French countryside over 33 years.
At the end of the 19th century, Joseph Ferdinand Cheval (Jacques Gamblin), is a simple postman who travels every day along the Drôme, from village to village. Alone, he is upset when he meets the woman of his life, Philomena (Laetitia Casta). From their union Alice was born. For this child he loves more than anything, Cheval then throws himself into a crazy gamble: to build her with his own hands, an incredible palace. Never spared by the ordeals of life, this ordinary man will not give up and will devote 33 years to build an extraordinary work: "The Ideal Palace".