Passion destroys everything.
In The Princess of Montpensier, acclaimed filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier ('Round Midnight') directs a spectacuIar cast in a riveting, Iush 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 love, haunted by a rakish suitor (Gaspard UlIiel, Hannibal Rising, A Very Long Engagement) from her chiIdhood, and advised by an aging noble man (Lambert WiIson, Of Gods And Men), harboring his own forbidden desire for her. The Princess of Montpensier must struggle passionateIy to stay alive in the intrigue of this corrupt political and romantic web of duty, passion, religion and war. |