Marquise (1997)

The rise and fall of a beauteous actress

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.

• Release Date: 1997-08-20
• Runtime: 1h 51min
• Director: Véra Belmont
• Writers: Marcel Beaulieu, Jean-François Josselin.