Marquise

Marquise

120 mins | Drama, Comedy | Aug. 20, 1997

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.

Marquise

120 mins | Drama, Comedy | Aug. 20, 1997

Marquise
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.
IMDb rating 5.9
Producers France 3 Cinéma, AMLF, Cofimage 5, Alhena Production, 3Emme
Original title Marquise
Directors Véra Belmont
Writers Gérard Mordillat, Marcel Beaulieu, Véra Belmont, Jean-François Josselin

Cast

Sophie Marceau

as Marquise

Bernard Giraudeau

as Moliere

Lambert Wilson

as Racine

Patrick Timsit

as Gros-Rene

Thierry Lhermitte

as Louis XIV

Anémone

as La Voisin

Remo Girone

as Jean-Baptiste Lully

Georges Wilson

as Floridor

Marianne Basler

as Madame

Franck de la Personne

as Monsieur

Romina Mondello

as Armande

Estelle Skornik

as Marie

Beatrice Palme

as Geneviève

Christine Joly

as Madeleine Béjart

Anne-Marie Philipe

as Catherine de Brie