Deborah Ross

Cold frames

But the pacing is dreary and the characters do not connect in this period drama about a gardening showdown at the court of Louis XIV

REX FEATURES 
issue 18 April 2015

A Little Chaos is a period drama directed by Alan Rickman and starring Kate Winslet as a woman charged to design and build a grand fountain garden for Louis XIV at Versailles. The film is, I noted from the poster, ‘the official film of RHS Gardening Week’, which may or may not be a hotly contested title, I just don’t know.

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