Marquise (1997)

5.5/10 111 min Drama Comedy

Overview

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.

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

Marianne Basler

Madame

Franck de la Personne

Monsieur

Romina Mondello

Armande

Estelle Skornik

Marie

Paolo Fosso

Beatrice Palme

Geneviève

Christine Joly

Madeleine Béjart

Anne-Marie Philipe

Catherine de Brie

Ginevra Colonna

Marta Zoffoli

Flaminia Fegarotti

Francesca DeRose

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