Je suis le seigneur du château

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Je suis le seigneur du château
Directed byRégis Wargnier
Running time
90 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Je suis le seigneur du château (English: I'm the King of the Castle) is a 1989

I'm the King of the Castle by the English writer Susan Hill
.

Plot

The film stars Régis Arpin as 10-year-old Thomas, the son of a millionaire. Together, they live a fairly isolated existence, in a mansion in rural France. His father (Jean Rochefort) hires a woman (Dominique Blanc), whose husband has been reported missing in the First Indochina War, to take care of things while he is away. The maid's son, Charles (David Behar) moves in as well, and the two parents hope that the two can become friends; they become enemies immediately after meeting each other. Once their parents fall in love, Thomas decides to make Charles, whom he views as an "invader", as miserable as possible.

Je suis le seigneur du château might be compared by some to the

La Femme de ma vie
in a 2-DVD set.

Notes

The film was shot at the chateau de Beaumanoir in the

storm of 1987 of which there is visual evidence in the film.[1]

The film deviates from the novel in several key ways. Most notably, it imbues a

homoerotic
subtext in the relationship between Thomas and Charles. In the book, Thomas (named Edmund) and Charles fluctuate between being friends and enemies, but there are never any suggestions of romance between the two.

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