On Wednesday March 19, the AFSR Cineclub will be screening the 1997 film Marquise, directed by Véra Belmont, and starring Sophie Marceau. We are in the Seventeenth Century, the time of the Sun King, where a young and ambitious actress known as Marquise is rehearsing in the company of Racine and Molière. It’s a career-defining performance for Marceau, and a romp through a time of literary creation and excess.
Joelle Pluchon and Peter Zingg, your Cineclub hosts, will screen the film at the AFSR classrooms beginning at 1:45 pm, followed by a bilingual discussion at approximately 4:00 pm. Light refreshments and popcorn will be served.
The event is free.
If you cannot attend the screening, you can screen the film at home on Kanopy (free for library card holders), Hoopla, Amazon or other popular streaming services, and join the discussion via Zoom. Please RSVP below if you would like to attend by Zoom.
Film Details
Original title / Titre originale: Marquise (1997)
Running time / Durée: 1h51m
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Directed by / Réalisé par: Véra Belmont
Casting: Sophie Marceau, Bernard Giraudeau, Lambert Wilson, Patrick Timsit, Thierry Lhermitte
Stream it online / Regarder sur: Hoopla, Kanopy, Plex, Plex Channel, The Roku Channel, Tubi TV, Freevee, Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Amazon Video, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Évocation de la vie de la marquise du Parc, jeune danseuse remarquée par Molière sur un marché lyonnais. A Paris, elle finira par danser à Versailles au bras de Louis XIV. Elle deviendra la maîtresse de Racine, qui écrira par amour pour elle Andromaque.
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.