Vatel - crew, film crew

The entire team, the film crew of the film "Vatel"
Vatel (2000)
Timing: 2:5 (125 min)
Vatel - TMDB rating
6.1/10
179
Vatel - Kinopoisk rating
7.231/10
27884
Vatel - IMDB rating
6.6/10
8600

Film crew

Director

Producer

Timothy Burrill
Producer

Casting

Photo Gérard Moulévrier #96844
Gérard Moulévrier
Casting
Karen Lindsay-Stewart
Casting

Editor

Costume Design

Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle
Costume Design

Production Design

Cecilia Montiel
Production Design
Photo Jean Rabasse #79782

Jean Rabasse

Jean Rabasse
Production Design

Set Decoration

Françoise Benoît-Fresco
Set Decoration

Makeup Artist

Marianne Collette
Makeup Artist
Lorella De Rossi
Makeup Artist
Photo Odile Fourquin #25680
Odile Fourquin
Makeup Artist

Original Music Composer

Photo Ennio Morricone #67343

Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone
Original Music Composer

Director of Photography

Photo Robert Fraisse #10504

Robert Fraisse

Robert Fraisse
Director of Photography

Hairstylist

Frédéric Zaid
Hairstylist

Screenplay

Jeanne Labrune
Screenplay

Makeup Supervisor

Sound

Photo François Groult #71494
François Groult
Sound

What's left behind the scenes

  • The character played by Jérôme Pradon quotes Captain Ahab from Herman Melville's (1819-1891) novel 'Moby Dick' (1851), which had not yet been written.
  • William III of Orange (1650-1702) is referred to as the 'King of Holland,' however, he was a ruler (stadtholder), but by no means a king.
  • When it is discovered in the kitchen that the sour cream has gone bad, Vatel, played by Gérard Depardieu, whips it with sugar and orders it to be served as a 'new kind of whipped cream.' This is a reference to the real François Vatel, who is mistakenly credited as the inventor of whipped cream (also known as crème Chantilly). In reality, by the time shown in the film, vanilla-infused whipped cream with sugar had been known for about 100 years, and the first mention of crème Chantilly dates only to the mid-1700s—approximately a century after the events depicted in the movie.
  • The Sun King, Louis XIV, tells the Prince of Condé (played by Julian Sands and Julian Glover, respectively) about a painting depicting a ship engulfed in flames. This refers to the loss of the ship of the line 'Soleil Royal' during the naval Battle of La Hogue in 1692. The loss of this vessel brought shame upon the entire French navy, and the monarch considered it a personal insult.
  • Information about the festivities of that era has reached us through the letters of Madame de Sévigné (1626-1696), an aristocrat who was personally acquainted with Vatel. As she wrote, the fireworks cost 16,000 francs, and the festivities during which Vatel committed suicide cost a total of 50,000 francs.
  • According to historical accounts, the cause of Vatel's death was a misunderstanding. He committed suicide fearing that fresh sea fish would not arrive in time for the meal, yet the fish arrived almost immediately after Vatel was gone.

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