Marquise
French Cinema • Classics, Comedy, Drama
Sophie Marceau stars as Marquise, the beautiful street dancer who found fame and notoriety among the seventeenth century aristocratic elite under the stage name Mademoiselle Du Parc. Raising herself out of poverty, Marquise joins Molière’s theater company after capturing the heart of his lead actor, who asks for her hand in marriage. Her star continues to rise while performing for King Louis XIV and his court, but it is not until Marquise becomes the mistress of rival playwright Racine that she finally realizes her ambition to become a great actress.
DIRECTED BY VÉRA BELMONT
FRANCE, ITALY, SPAIN | 1997 | FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Up Next in French Cinema
-
My King
From director & actress Maïwenn (THE FIFTH ELEMENT) comes a gut-wrench tale of falling out of love. Admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident, Tony (Emmanuelle Bercot) becomes dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers while looking back on a turbulent relationship s...
-
Neither Heaven Nor Earth
A genre-defying debut, NEITHER HEAVEN NOR EARHT is a’ “gripping mash-up of LONE SURVIVOR, THE THING, and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT” (The Hollywood Reporter). French Army Captain Antares Bonassieu and his squad are assigned to monitor a remote valley of Wakhan, Afghanistan on the border of Pakistan....
-
The Nun
Born to a bourgeois family in 1760s France, Suzanne is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music. Inexplicably, her parents abruptly decide to send young Suzanne off to a convent, where she resists structure at every turn until she discovers that she is an illegitimate child. Left wi...
1 Comment