August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. He barely eats and weakens increasingly. This is the start of the slow agony of the greatest king of France, surrounded by his relatives and doctors.

The last days of king Louis XIV enthrallingly captured by Albert Serra and brilliantly interpreted by French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud. "It struck me as a modest yet profound contemplation of mortality and history, and perhaps the most beautiful film seen in Cannes this year." (Sight & Sound)