The Three Acts:The initial tableaux: The film opening is set in France in 1682. King Louis XIV commands that the gardens at Versailles be upgraded. The master builder, Andre Le Notre, asks for proposals, of which there are many. Andre is impressed by Madame de Barra's designs, and commissions an outdoor theatre with flowing water.Delineation of conflicts: Louis XIV wants a magnificent garden. Sabine's competitors give her bad labor recommendations, which impedes her project's progress and gets her started into court intrigue. Madame de Notre wishes Madame de Barra to fail, since she thinks Sabine is dallying with her husband. Sabine has more than a brush with the French court. Sabine has to deal with the years past death of her only child and her philandering husband.Resolution: The project gets finished, and relationships change.

I watched this through to the end in the hope that there would be an amazing ending or a twist. Anything to relieve the boredom from watching this drivel.Everything about it was awful. I did not believe any of the characters, I will overlook the Frenchman who spoke with a thick Northern English accent, but if this was an amateur play, maybe I could forgive it, but these are well known seasoned actors and no one seemed convincing at all.Kate Winslet was particularly dull, I am sure she was almost asleep in some scenes but the main problem was that nothing lifted the film from being so very dull.The sabotage scene was almost interesting, but even that was as wet as the garden project became.I cannot understand why anyone liked this dull, dreary, lifeless movie.

I wanted to watch all of Alan Rickman's films as my own tribute to all the pleasure he has brought me. Once I saw A Little Chaos was about the Palace of Versailles, I could not miss it. For someone who loves French Beaux Art architecture and has only had a very short visit to the Palace of Versailles I was looking forward to a visual feast. I was not disappointed even though so many English sites were used in filming. The story was charming and the romance of the construction of the outdoor ballroom added to the charm. In fact the shaping of the land to the gardener's will to create some order in the chaos gave a very sensual feel. I was amazed to see Alan Rickman directed and co-wrote the story, a very talented and under-rated artist. If you enjoy visual beauty and a heart warming story, this is for you.

-The King's Gardens (English title: "A Little Chaos') is an International Art House romantic drama of 2015 written by Jeremy Brock, Alison Deegam and Alan Rickman.-Alan Rickman, Hans Gruber from 'Die Hard', says in his first film as a director - who until recently the title 'A Little Chaos' wore - the story of a garden architect (Kate Winslet) who anno 1682 of the gardener of the King (Matthias Shoenaerts) the job commanded in Versailles to establish a Garden that must express the heavenly glory of France.-The film itself especially express the academic training of the filmmaker from: the tone is British-theatrical, the atmosphere sluggish, the performances impressively nobly but also what lifeless