Movie Poster

Marquise ( 1997 )

"The rise and fall of a beauteous actress"

★5.6 /10 _(48.0)

111 min ● Aug 20, 1997 ● French

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.