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Majestically slumped on his death-bed, Jean-Pierre Léaud’s Louis cuts a surreal, ghostly figure, his pale face framed by an absurd puff-ball wig that floats over his head like a thundercloud.

Albert Serra’s The Death of Louis XIV is some kind of extraordinary achievement, though it’s hard to define what kind. It’s slow and almost storyless (dying apart). It’s directed by a ...