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aka LA PRINCESSE DE MONTPENSIER
Year: 2010
USA: IFC Films
UK: Optimum Releasing
Cast: Melanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Gregoire
Leprince-Ringuet, Gaspard Ulliel, Raphael Personnaz, Anatole De
Bodinat, Eric Rulliat, Samuel Theis, Michel Vuillermoz, Judith
Chemla, Phillipe Magnan, Cesar Domboy, Jean-Pol Dubois, Florence
Thomassin
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Country: France
Language: French (English subtitles)
USA & UK: 139 mins
USA Rated: Unrated
UK Certificate: 15 contains moderate sex
USA Release Date: 15 April 2011 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 8 July 2011 (Limited Release)
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Synopsis
1562. In France, during the reign of Charles IX, the wars of
religion are raging...
Marie de Mézières, heiress to one of the kingdom’s greatest
fortunes, loves the young Duc de Guise, known in the annals of
history as Le Balafré, “Scarface”. She believes he loves her
back. To increase his family’s prestige, her father, the Marquis
de Mézières forces Marie to marry the Prince de Montpensier, whom
she has never met.
The Prince is summoned by Charles IX to join the war against the
Protestants. With the whole country turned into a bloody
battlefield, he sends his young wife to Champigny, one of his most
secluded castles, in the company of the Comte de Chabannes, his
friend and former tutor. The Prince asks Chabannes to complete the
Princess’s education so that she can take her place at court one
day.
In unhappy isolation at Champigny, Marie tries to forget the
passionate longing she still feels for Guise. Fate and the changing
course of the war lead Guise and the Duc d’Anjou, the future Henri
III , to stay at Champigny shortly after Montpensier has joined
Marie there. In turn, Anjou falls in love with the Princess, to
whose charms Chabannes has also succumbed.
A violent, passionate rivalry develops with Marie as the prize.
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