La Reine Margot (Queen Margot) -- Chereau (1994)

La Reine Margot -- 1994 -- Patrice Chereau

(AKA Queen Margot)



after the novel by Alexander Dumas (1845)



Music: Goran Bregovic

Camera: Philippe Rousselot

Screenplay: Daniele Thompson & Patrice Chereau

Cast: Isabelle Adjani......Margot

Daniel Auteuil.......Henri de Navarre

Jean-Hugues Anglade..Charles IX

Vincent Perez........La Mole

Virna Lisi...........Catherine de Medicis

Dominique Blanc......Henriette de Nevers

Pascal Greggory......Duc d'Anjou

Miguel Bose..........Duc de Guise

Asia Argento.........Charlotte de Sauve

Thomas Kretschmann...Nancay

Jean-Claude Brialy...Admiral de Coligny



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Spoken language: French

Texted language: English (external subs)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110963/



An intense and breathtaking epic drama, with excellent

direction from Chereau, outstanding acting by the

luminous Adjani, and great camera work and sets.

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Story: The night of August 24, 1572, is known as

the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious

war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding

is arranged between Margot de Valois, sister of the

immature Catholic King Charles IX, and the Hugenot

King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains

her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults,

poisonings, and instigations to incest (IMDB)



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Comment: Everything about this picture is beautiful,

even the ugliness is beautiful...an oxymoron, but

the only way I can describe it. This is a stunning

tale of 16th century sex and violence, with a dirty

realism, but still an overlay of beauty.



Isabelle Adjani is intense, beautiful, and sensuous

as Margot, the highly sexed, intelligent and dutiful

sister of the doomed King Charles IX of France. She

is forced into a marriage of political and religious

convenience by her bitterly ambitious mother, Catherine

de Medici (Virna Lisi) to the repulsive Henri Navarre

(sympathetically played by Daniel Auteuil). There is a

tremendous amount going on, and Margot's incest with

her brothers is more than hinted at.



The searingly sensual Vincent Perez plays La Mole,

who eventually becomes Margot's doomed lover. Their

first encounter is an acrobatic feat of anonymous sex

in an alleyway that is breath-taking. Their later

love scenes are intensely erotic. This film only

becomes better on repeat viewings. I found I was

able to grasp more on my second viewing. There is

so much going on, so many twists and turns and shocks,

and the film is also quite long. It never lags, and

even Margot's grudging tolerance, if not love, for

her husband, is believingly portrayed. Very highly

recommended. (Doeadear from California)



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