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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.
- 120 min
Born into poverty, Marquise (Sophie Marceau, BRAVEHEART) is a promiscuous young woman who uses her exquisite beauty and seductive dancing to earn a li…
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.
Moliere and his best friend and fellow actor, Gros-Rene, witness Marquise dancing for a rough crowd, inspiring Gros-Rene to propose marriage and promise her a Parisian theatrical debut. It is seventeenth century France and this self-assured beauty with the fat comic seem an odd couple. In fact,...
Moliere (Bernard Giraudeau), Racine (Lambert Wilson), Louis XIV and Gros-Rene, the marquise's roly-poly spouse, influence the 17th-century performer's (Sophie Marceau) life and career.
Sophie Marceau stars as Marquise, the beautiful street dancer who found fame and notoriety among the seventeenth century elite under the stage name Mademoiselle Du Parc.
