Marquise

IMDb link: 0119623
IMDb rating: 5.9 (1,639 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama, History
Director: Sophie Marceau, Patrick Timsit, Vera Belmont, Bernard Giraudeau
Cast: Lambert Wilson and others

Release date: 12 Sep 1997
Release year: 1997
Runtime: 120 minutes
Country: France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland
Keywords: moliere, king louis xiv, 17th century, paris france, f rated, reference to pierre corneille, stage performance, royal court, based on real person, 1650s

Plot:

Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one.

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