Marquise

The rise and fall of a beauteous actress

Marquise — Plot

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
• August 20, 1997
• Runtime
• 111 min
• Genres
• Drama, Comedy
• Director
• Véra Belmont

Marquise — Cast

Sophie Marceau Marquise Bernard Giraudeau Moliere Lambert Wilson Racine Patrick Timsit Gros-Rene Thierry Lhermitte Louis XIV Anémone La Voisin Remo Girone Jean-Baptiste Lully Georges Wilson Floridor