In frilly YA frivol “The King’s Daughter,” Louis Xiv (an awkwardly bewigged Pierce Brosnan) orders a mermaid captured and brought back to Versailles, so that he might sacrifice the creature during a solar eclipse and attain eternal life, it takes just a few minutes for such an amazing feat to be accomplished.
But haste is hardly the order of the day with this quasi-historic fairy tale, which follows that thrilling opening with royal balls and cross-country horseback rides, courtly intrigue and plentiful costume changes — a girly dream of the French monarchy, for which would-be audiences have been obliged to wait a quarter-century.The well-liked book on which it’s based, Vonda N.
McIntyre’s “The Moon and the Sun,” was published in 1997, and discussions began almost immediately about an adaptation.
The film focuses largely on what happens after the mermaid reaches France, and the Sun King (played by Brosnan with
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