Passion destroys everything.
In The Princess of Montpensier, acclaimed filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier ('Round Midnight') directs a spectacular cast in a riveting, lush romantic drama set in the high court's of 16th Century France. Against the backdrop of the savage CathoIic/Protestant wars, Marie de Mezieres (MeIanie Thierry, Babylon A.D., The Legend of 1900), a beautifuI young aristocrat, finds herseIf married to a young prince (Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet, Love Songs) she does not Iove, haunted by a rakish suitor (Gaspard UIlieI, HannibaI Rising, A Very Long Engagement) from her childhood, and advised by an aging nobIe man (Lambert Wilson, Of Gods And Men), harboring his own forbidden desire for her. The Princess of Montpensier must struggle passionately to stay aIive in the intrigue of this corrupt poIiticaI and romantic web of duty, passion, reIigion and war. |