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Writer Eve de Castro has only a few credits to her name, but all of them are works of intelligence and complexity. Along with Andrée Corbiau, Gérard Corbiau, and Didier Decoin, Castro wrote "The King is Dancing" (2000), based on Philippe Beaussant's 1992 biography of 17th century composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. An elaborate costume drama directed by Gérard Corbiau, the film relates the rise of King Louis XIV (Benoît Magimel) through the eyes of Lully (Boris Terral) and the playwright Moliére (Tchéky Karyo), who collaborate together to produce ballets for the Sun King to perform in. Along with Nathalie Carter and Christine Sautter, Castro subsequently went on to pen the four-part miniseries "Rastignac ou les ambitieux," which aired on French television in 2001. The show's protagonists, Eugéne de Rastignac (Jocelyn Quivrin) and Lucien de Rubempré (Flannan Obé), are characters who appear in the works of the great 19th century novelist Honoré de Balzac, only in this case Castro transposed the power-hungry young men to a modern setting. Like Balzac, Castro used these characters to explore the way ambition functions in contemporary society. She went further, however, by creating her own female protagonist, Elsa (Alika Del Sol), a choice that served to emphasize the evolution of women's status since Balzac's time. Following this adventurous quasi-adaptation, Castro wrote the 2009 television movie "L'école du pouvoir," a drama that follows a group of young students at an exclusive school in the late 1970s and early 1980s.