The Ideal Palace (2018) on Netflix
Joseph Ferdinand Cheval delivers the mail across the French countryside. Over the next 33 years he builds a palace of his own there.
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- Netflix3.8/5
- IMDb7.1/101,754 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes80%
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Ideal Palace (2018)
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- Jacques Gamblin was quickly considered to play the postman Ferdinand Cheval, but it was actress Alexandra Lamy who was initially chosen for the role of Philomène.
- Nils Tavernier said he wrote the film around the acting of Jacques Gamblin, the lead of his previous film De toutes nos forces, which was itself based on the biography of an exceptional, atypical life.
- To play the postman, Jacques Gamblin had to lose several kilos so as to look thinner with a gaunt face, and he let his moustache grow.
