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In making a movie about Eleaonor of Aquitaine one journeies in time 1000 years to relive and recall an entire world. It is a world of hard won human behaviors that looked different with a changed sense of drama, spirituality, music and fashion. Yet this is the root of a new code of behavior, the script is a new way of speaking and acting for the human race.

TIME: 1137

PLACE: Bordeaux, Paris, Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, Jerusalem, London, Poitier, Westminster, Stonehenge, Fontevraud

FEATURES:

• An epic heroic woman's role
• A story that encompasses the life men and women of the time.
• Chivalry at its origin in France and England.
• The sensational journey of the men and woman of the 2nd Crusade.
• The strange mix of spiritual and sexual life.
• An Islamic point of view balancing a Christian point of view.
• A new myth of love experienced in feelings of love in all ages of life.
• The lost music and style of the troubadours.
• The forgotten art and origin of romance including the world's first engagement rings and Valentines rituals.
• The outrageous personal fashion of costumes of the emerging first Renaissance.
• The origins of Cirque de Soliel.
• The creation of romantic ritual that are now customs - engagement rings, flowers, letters, songs.
• The invention of stained glass, paper, wind mills.
• The destruction of the greates city on Earth at the time- Constantinople - the epic destruction of the World Trade Center (by Christians against the Moslems_
• Witness a true miracle in the Holy Lands.
• Chivalry in love, faith and belief.
• Incredible feasts and imaginative parties.
• The daring adventures of knight William Marshall.
• Archbishop Thomas Becket's spiritual struggle. (expansion of "Becket")
• The human faith of Suger of Dennis vs the stern faith of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux .
• The spiritual character of King Louis VII of France
• The dynamic character of King Henry II of England
• Restoring Eleanor of Aquitaine's character and achievements (replacing "Lion in Winter")
• The glory, creation and intrigue of the "Courts of Love"
• The heroic Richard the Lion Heart, the sinister King John
• The refounding of King Arthur's tales based on Eleanor and her knights.
• The persona upon whom Joan of Arc was modeled after.
• The person Queen Elizabeth descended from.
• A faithful reconstruction of the mystery of Eleanor of Aquitaine who experienced every form of human love.
• A full life with a suprisingly victorious ending.

But you will walk away

• Reborn with the sense of romance, desiring to give love as Eleanor.
• Wanting to do right as a chivalrous knight in the name of love.
• Thinking about today's situation in Europe and the World.
• Feeling alive, tingling to remember this story.

Research bit

Le palais de l'Ombrière movie

http://www.alienor-aquitaine.org/lieux/02_ombriere.htm