Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet take centre stage in this transfixing historical drama, evocatively depicting the last days of the French Revolution and the fates of Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI, interpreted from the diaries of Louis XVI’s personal valet.

1792: The official Parisian residence of the king, the Tuileries Palace, has been stormed. Louis, Marie Antoinette and their children have been arrested and confined in the Tour du Temple, a mediaeval chateau in the city centre. Far from the splendour of Versailles, where the family and their retinue had lived until only a few years earlier, they are vulnerable for the first time in their lives. While the King naively tries to keep spirits high and manners intact, his pragmatic and imperious wife is far more realistic about their predicament, and the destiny that likely awaits them…

“Thanks to the right interpretation, for both Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet, empathy with these despised figures is created, without their faults being cleared.” ~Thibault Liessi, Le Dauphiné Libéré

“Between a casual and fallen king, a tormented and manipulative queen, this Deluge tells the story of the passage from one political dictate to another with both rapture and gravity.” ~Laurent Cambon, aVoir-aLire.com