Movie

Marquise (1997)

• August 20, 1997
• 1h 51m

• Drama
• Comedy

“The rise and fall of a beauteous actress”

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.

Director

Véra Belmont

Writers

Jean-François Josselin, Marcel Beaulieu

Starring

Sophie Marceau, Bernard Giraudeau, Lambert Wilson