Marquise

Marquise

5.6

Aug 20 1997

2h 51m

Drama, Comedy

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.

Sophie Marceau

Sophie Marceau

Marquise

Bernard Giraudeau

Bernard Giraudeau

Moliere

Lambert Wilson

Lambert Wilson

Racine

Patrick Timsit

Patrick Timsit

Gros-Rene

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