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.

Okay this movie A little chaos was released in 2014 and I have just now, a year later, decided to watch it. When I watched the trailer it didn't WOW me but I eventually decided to give it a chance. In the movie plays one actress; Kate Winslet, who became famous by playing the main character in Titanic; Rose.But that was 16/17 years ago. Titanic was released in 1997. and since then Kate Winslet got much older and she is now 40 years old. In this movie she has blond hair which I don't like. I think that the red hair fitted her perfectly. But that's enough about her. The movie action is monotonous and a little boring. Everything happens slowly and it' all predictable.

Don't get me wrong: I enjoyed watching this film. It was - well - nice. Still, I was disappointed. "A little chaos" has no point to me.First, I had thought it was based on a true story: a charming footnote in history worth being told. But no: The plot is entirely made up, the main character Sabine de Barra never existed and Versailles' famed garden architect André Le Nôtre was over 70 when he completed the surroundings of the castle. And Louis XIV was never ever such a subtle self-ironic personality as displayed by Rickman.So - what might be the point of the story? The "Win-against-all-odds" plot is highly predictable and really not much.The love story comes somewhat inevitable and - although nicely played by Winslet and Schoenaerts - does not really add to excitement; it has hardly any twists and turns.The gardening aspect could be interesting, but without in-depth knowledge of the history of garden architecture, we viewers are kept at loss to see why Mme de Barra's concepts might have been groundbreaking to gardening.For an breathtaking period drama the visuals are too modest and small.Personally, I would have liked to take this little episode as the exemplary and decisive turning point in the history of the ancien régime. Individual thinking and considerations of nature's law paving the way for 1789's revolution that overthrew the royals and their useless courtiers. The king's family, the nobles, their jaded ways are doomed long before they even know it.But we get far too little insight to allow such a far-reaching interpretation.What remains is a nice enough film for a rainy Sunday afternoon, but not more. And that is really a pity.

I really expected something quite different, but what I got was a beautifully crafted fantasy that pitched each and every moment just right. The thematic weave is extremely subtle and every single moment very carefully placed with an incredible sense of sensitivity for the human condition. The movie is delightful and deals with such an enormous amount of delicately sensitive human themes that I am awestruck at the director's ability to treat them with such a light hand that you never get the feeling that you are working to get through the story. A Little Chaos struck my nerves and my heart with quite a few story lines that I recognized from everyday life in the 21st century and managed to tell a story of our day to day lives, lived in a period knows for it's decadent overindulgence and careless waste. Very much like today but not with the political baggage of libertarianism, capitalism and human rights that has come to burden out every decision just like form and pompous did back in the good old days, when times were bad...Thus they place themes what many of us chew on, in a time that, even though it seems so far away, we can relate to. And within this they succeed in touching your heart as an viewer without striking a painful blow. The cinematography is brilliantly simple and exceptionally effective for a complex story made watchable, easy and fresh.