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Ridicule
1996 · Film · 102 min
Directed by Patrice Leconte
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
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And in term of movies: Ridicule and Le Souper are two [french] films that will teach you politics and social interactions MUCH BETTER than any history book.
[The second one needs a bit of Wikipedia to understand the background of the two characters, and why they have to talk to each other]
To quote a line from the french movie Ridicule: after all we trust the eunuch with the harem...