Marquise

(1997)

★ 5.5 IMDb · 55 votes

Genres: Drama, Comedy

Year: 1997

Runtime: 111 мин

Country: Switzerland, Spain

Director: Véra Belmont

Cast: Софи Марсо, Bernard Giraudeau, Ламбер Вильсон, Patrick Timsit, Тьерри Лермитт, Anémone, Ремо Джироне, Жорж Вильсон, Marianne Basler, Franck de la Personne

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.