Falling Star 2014

Falling Star 2014
Stella cadente (original title)
1h 45min | Drama , History | 26 January 2014 (Netherlands)
Storyline:
The difficulty of establishing beauty and the futility of power.
User review:
Falling star is a very refreshing digression. It's full of trickery and has an irreverent and Arcadian attitude.
The movie centres around King Amadeo I of Spain, and the farcical position in which he found himself. Invited to become the Spanish monarch by General Prim he travels from his ducal seat in Italy to practically live under house arrest for his entire reign after the assassination of his sponsor on the eve of his coronation. Amadeo's father was the King of Sardinia, later of Italy, and he'd been brought up to be a ruler, trained all his life. He is tolerated by those who use him for he knows not what and all his grand plans for Spain entirely ignored. He chooses to remain in this gilded cage, who knows why, perhaps he stubbornly believed that the mandarins would change their minds, that he was to be to Spain what Charles II was to England, that he could march into parliament and shoo the bickerers away.