Is there really an outdoor ballroom at Versailles?

Winslet’s Madame de Barra is a fiction, but the garden she creates in the film is real. The Grotto of Thetis was built as an outdoor ballroom with marble flooring, tiered seating and fountains that run over tiers of stonework and shells.

Who designed the gardens of Versailles?

André Le Nôtre
In 1661 Louis XIV entrusted André Le Nôtre with the creation and renovation of the gardens of Versailles, which he considered just as important as the Palace.

Did a woman design a garden at Versailles?

Actor Alan Rickman helms A Little Chaos, his second film as a director, with Kate Winslet as a royal landscaper helping to design the vast gardens of Versailles in the court of King Louis XIV (played by Rickman himself).

Where is the garden of Versailles?

Versailles, France

Gardens of Versailles
Location	Versailles, France
Coordinates	48°48′29″N 2°6′30″E
Area	800 ha.
Designer	André Le Nôtre Charles Le Brun Louis Le Vau Jules Hardouin-Mansart

Was there a real Sabine de Barra?

Historical accuracy Some of the film’s characters are fictional, including Kate Winslet’s Sabine de Barra. The film is set in 1682, but André Le Nôtre began work at Versailles in 1661.

How historically accurate is a little chaos?

Historical accuracy Some of the film’s characters are fictional, including Kate Winslet’s Sabine de Barra. The film is set in 1682, but André Le Nôtre began work at Versailles in 1661. Le Nôtre was nearly 70 in 1682, twice the age he appears to be as portrayed by Schoenaerts in the film.

Is a little bit of chaos a true story?

Rather refreshingly, the film acknowledges right at the start that the whole story is fictional. It’s prologue text reads simply “There is an outdoor ballroom in the gardens of Versailles. In what follows, that much at least is true.” Sabine is a completely fictitious character.