Princeton Garden Theatre to Host Special Screening of A Little Chaos

The British historical drama A Little Chaos comes to the Princeton Garden Theatre for one night only on June 17, prior to its June 26 release.

The screening, which begins at 7 p.m., will be presented in conjunction with the Princeton University Library’s current exhibit Versailles on Paper: A Graphic Panorama of the Palace and Gardens of Louis XIV, which continues through July 19.

The screening is free, but reservations are required. Reservations can be made at www.PrincetonGardenTheatre.org or at the theater box office.

Alan Rickman directs and stars in this period piece about two talented landscape artists (Kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts) who become romantically entangled while building a garden in King Louis XIV’s palace at Versailles.

Princeton’s Versailles on Paper: A Graphic Panorama of the Palace and Gardens of Louis XIV documents the contemporary representation of Versailles through an array of prints, books, maps, medals, and manuscripts.

It highlights those elements that today survive only on paper: ephemeral festivals; short-lived creatures (courtiers, animals, flowers); fragile groves and fountains too costly to maintain; and once-celebrated masterpieces of art and architecture that were irrevocably destroyed or altered.

The “paper Versailles” is quite different from the one that millions of tourists visit every year and affords many unusual and surprising glimpses into a largely lost world. All books and prints on display were created in the 17th and 18th centuries.

More information about the exhibit can be found here.

The attached images were provided by the Princeton Garden Theatre.