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Marquise (1997)

Name: Marquise
Director: Véra Belmont
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 1997-08-20
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 5.5
Cast: Sophie Marceau, Bernard Giraudeau, Lambert Wilson, Patrick Timsit, Thierry Lhermitte

The rise and fall of a beauteous actress

111 min · Switzerland, Spain, France, Italy · Dir. Véra Belmont

Drama Comedy 1997 movies

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.