Marquise

"The rise and fall of a beauteous actress"

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.

Director: Véra Belmont

Cast

Sophie Marceau

Marquise

Bernard Giraudeau

Moliere

Lambert Wilson

Racine

Patrick Timsit

Gros-Rene

Thierry Lhermitte

Louis XIV

Anémone

La Voisin

Remo Girone

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Georges Wilson

Floridor