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A beautiful woman struggles with three men who control her life and the one who has won her heart in this historical drama from director Bertrand Tavernier, adapted from the classic novel by Madame de La Fayette.

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ProducerEric Heumann

EAN5055201814616

eBay Product ID (ePID)102729908

Product Key Features

ActorGaspard Ulliel, Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lambert Wilson, Melanie Thierry, Eric Rulliat

Film/TV TitleThe Princess of Montpensier

DirectorBertrand Tavernier

LanguageFrench

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

Run Time140 Mins

Release Year2011

FormatDVD

Features60 Min Making of Directed by Pierre-Henry Gilbert\Uk Exclusive Interview with Bertrand Tavernier, With Subtitles

GenreDrama, Period

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate15

Country/Region of ManufactureFrance

ComposerPhilippe Sarde

Additional InformationA beautiful woman struggles with three men who control her life and the one who has won her heart in this historical drama from director Bertrand Tavernier, adapted from the classic novel by Madame de La Fayette. In 1567, France is mired in a civil war between Catholics and Huguenots (early Protestants), and the Marquis de Mezieres (Philippe Magnan) is eager to form an alliance with the Duc de Montpensier (Michel Vuillermoz). With this in mind, the Marquis strikes a deal in which is beautiful daughter Marie (Melanie Thierry) will wed Philippe (Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet), Montpensier's son. Marie is not especially happy with this notion, as she's fallen in love with Henri de Guise (Gaspard Ulliel), her handsome cousin, but she dutifully agrees to the match, and soon Marie and Philippe are sharing an estate in the countryside. However, Philippe is soon called up to fight in the Civil War, and he asks his friend and tutor the Comte de Chabannes (Lambert Wilson) to look after Marie while he's gone. Marie is bright but not educated, and Chabannes is asked to educate her in intellectual and social matters; as he gets to know Marie, he falls deeply in love with her, but she's already divided in her loyalties between her husband and the man she truly loves.

ReviewsTime Out - Functions swimmingly as an ambiguous study of wrongly diverted passions., Los Angeles Times - Epic and intimate, historical and contemporary, moving and thought-provoking., Variety - Like its heroine, helmer Bertrand Tavernier's visitation to 16th-century France has both beauty and brains, and offers a portrait of renaissance life leagues more accurate than the most historical epics.

ScreenwriterBertrand Tavernier, Francois Olivier Rousseau

AuthorMadame de La Fayette

CinematographerBruno de Keyser

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleThe Princess Of Montpensier

Consumer AdviceContains moderate sex