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Marquise

The rise and fall of a beauteous actress

Not Rated Drama Comedy

Starring: Sophie Marceau, Bernard Giraudeau, Lambert Wilson, Patrick Timsit, Thierry Lhermitte

Writer: Marcel Beaulieu, Véra Belmont, Gérard Mordillat, Gérard Mordillat, Jean-François Josselin

Release Date:
August 20, 1997
Ratings:
5.4 / 10
Director:
Véra Belmont
Companies:
AMLF

Overview

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.