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Based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot concerns a events behind barbarous Massacre of St. Bartholomew in 16th-century France. Isabelle Adjani plays Margot, pledged for domestic reasons to one male (Daniel Auteuil) by her mom (Virna Lisi), while she is, in fact, in adore with another (Vincent Pérez). Despite a bond that grows between a demure couple, plots are hatching all over a palace opposite a royals. Adventurous, exciting, erotic, and given clever artistic credit by a superb cast, a film is fascinating and visually sumptuous. Directed by Patrice Chereau, reduction famous outward of France than is a film's producer, Claude Berri (director of Jean de Florette and Manon of a Spring). --Tom KeoghYou competence also like...
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #107108 in DVD
- Rating: R (Restricted)
- Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Format: NTSC
- Original language: French
- Subtitled in: English
- Running time: 144 minutes
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Based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas, Queen Margot concerns a events behind barbarous Massacre of St. Bartholomew in 16th-century France. Isabelle Adjani plays Margot, pledged for domestic reasons to one masculine (Daniel Auteuil) by her mom (Virna Lisi), while she is, in fact, in adore with another (Vincent Pérez). Despite a bond that grows between a demure couple, plots are hatching all over a palace opposite a royals. Adventurous, exciting, erotic, and given clever artistic credit by a superb cast, a film is fascinating and visually sumptuous. Directed by Patrice Chereau, reduction famous outward of France than is a film's producer, Claude Berri (director of Jean de Florette and Manon of a Spring). --Tom Keogh
From The New Yorker
Blood and courage and other kinds of fun. Patrice Chereau's chronological epic is mostly silly, though it never slows down prolonged adequate to make a genuine dope of itself. The place and period-Paris in 1572, when energy was confirmed by a multiple of incest, poison, and blind faith-are unimprovable. Isabelle Adjani plays Margot, a suspiciously tighten sister of a King of France (Jean-Hugues Anglade), a daughter of Catherine de Medici (an iron-willed Virna Lisi), and a reluctant mom of Henri of Navarre (Daniel Auteuil). Chereau digs low into a plod of eremite politics and a pollution of Paris; unfortunately, when it comes to sixteenth-century faces, his realism runs dry. (Margot stairs out to demeanour for her partner and appears to be erratic by ranks of masculine models.) The film lacks a autocratic opening during a heart; a actors yowl and strut, though nothing of them can compare Chereau's passion. His adore of fire opposite dark is infectious, and his choreography of a electrocute of a Protestants on St. Bartholomew's Day is barbarous and rousing. It's good to see a dress design that refuses to be good behaved. In French. -Anthony Lane
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker
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By Lawyeraau
Based on a regretful work of chronological novella by Alexandre Dumas, "Marguerite De Valois", this is nonetheless another jubilant duration square by Miramax Films. Critically acclaimed, a film is a leader of 5 Cesar Awards, as good as a prestigious Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize.
The film is set in Gothic Catholic France during a energy of Charles IX. There has been disturbance between a Catholic infancy and a Protestant (Huguenot) minority. It is Aug 24, 1572, a day that will live in infamy. The day starts conveniently enough, as it is a matrimony day for Margot, a sister of Charles IX. It is an organised matrimony between Catholic Margot and Protestant Henri de Bourbon, a King of Navarre, a range in France. It is a matrimony that is ostensible to relieve a disturbance between these dual warring religions. As such, many Protestants transport to Paris to see a kinship between these dual stately personages.
After a wedding, a immorality and energy inspired Dowager Queen, Catherine de Medici, mom to Charles IX and his dual younger brothers, Anjou and Alencon, as good as Margot, sets in suit a array of intrigues and plots and reveals what her constant motives were in arranging this marriage, motives that a King of Navarre already suspects. Far from being a partnership to combine Catholics and Protestants, it is a call to arms opposite a Protestants, ensuing in a barbarous St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, in that over 6 thousand gullible Protestant men, women, and children were brutally slain.
Margot, who primarily dislikes her father and is famous for her wantonness, does make a agreement with him to be his ally. When a destruction starts she is confounded though is shortly drawn into her family's plots and intrigues. She realizes, however, that her survival, as good as that of her husband, depends on her new lover, La Mole, son of Coligny, a King's slain advisor. Thereafter, Catherine de Medici continues to tract opposite a King of Navarre, seeking his death. Margot spends many of a film perplexing to keep her mom and brothers in check and her father safe, while gratifying herself with La Mole.
Isabelle Adjani is overwhelming in a purpose of Margot. Luminous and looking ethereally beautiful, she is simply magnificent. Daniel Auteuil is superb as a beleaguered King of Navarre. He infuses a purpose with a regard and amiability that creates a spectator instinctively base for him. Jean-Hugues Anglade is stately as Charles IX, a diseased aristocrat dominated by his ruthless, rapacious mom who would rather see her favorite son, Anjou, on a throne. Anglade creates a purpose 3 dimensional as he adds a certain attraction to a role. Pascal Greggory, who plays Anjou, adds a certain tasty creepiness to a purpose of a hostile younger hermit who longs for his brother's genocide so that he can wear a crown. Virna Lisi is a autocratic participation as a immorality Catherine de Medici, who would frankly scapegoat her children for energy and see so many of her skeleton go awry. Last though not least, Vincent Perez is stately as large and constant La Mole.
Potential viewers of this French denunciation film should be wakeful that it is an intensely aroused film, due to a St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. It is also intimately explicit, with frontal nakedness scenes. Moreover, while a DVD provides far-reaching shade format, stately audio and visuals, as good as stage selections and subtitles, it does not offer any extras. Notwithstanding this, a film is one that all those who suffer duration films or chronological novella will, undoubtedly, enjoy.
67 of 70 people found a following examination helpful.
By Julian Rad
Queen Margot is one of a some-more pleasing french films we are expected to see - right adult there with Tous Les Matins du Monde and La Belle Noiseuse. The story is good executed, a instruction excellent, a behaving tip notch, a actors all masterfully beautiful, a art departments are fantastic and a lighting and cinematography are outstanding. So since on earth did Miramax confirm to put out such a horribly bad DVD send of this stately film? From a opening credits, a volume of digital artifacting in a blacks is horrific - a frames literally solidify when there is no transformation on shade - a audio is vale and though abyss - and design detailing is cleared out. Now, we will expected get used to these abominable bad choices on a partial of a placement association who motionless to save a few bucks on a decent DVD encoding and still get wrapped adult in a stunningly pleasing Isabelle Adajani (who was over 40 during a time of this film's lensing!) and a truly constrained storytelling going on in this film. However, it's only such a beating to see a association reknown for it's attraction to a "art film" genre make such a crassly ignorant preference as this one. Let's all wish that Criterion decides to respect this truly honourable film with a DVD send estimable of it's filmmakers. 5 stars for a film and 0 stars for a DVD itself = 3 stars altogether - value renting for those who haven't seen it, value owning for those of us who adore it and for those who can live without, wait until a correct DVD is put out!
48 of 51 people found a following examination helpful.
By John Tilelli MD
Alexandre Dumas was among a initial writers of anticipation fiction. He and Victor Hugo pioneered a sequence novel. Here's a formula: take a elementary hisotrical fact, for instance - that Henri III succeeded Charles IX, son of Catherine de Medici. Then let your mind go furious about what a time contingency have been like, with all a passions and intrigues. Poof! You have a smashing roman feuilletee that will keep readers entrance behind and entrance behind for any installment. Reading La Reine Margot can be distracting, since Dumas was something reduction than ideal in a smoothness department. The story, however has copiousness of skeleton to hang an impossibly good modernized chronicle on them. The linchpins are as aged as time itself: a dispute between equally blind and uncompromizing religions, a quandary of adore vs. duty, and a trageday that attends constant love. This would be flattering even in complicated garb.
The prolongation is marvelous. The sets are comfortable and mysterious. Isabelle Adjani captures all of a indulgence and savvy of Margueritte de Valois. The casting of a really typical looking Henri Navarre is brilliant. Those of us who have review a strange might skip Coconnais and de la Mole as their stress is underplayed. That is OK. Both actors play a partial to a "T". The Duc de Guise is as slippery as we suppose him to be, and Catherine only as evil. Indeed this is Harry Potter - a prudent transcription of a good novel to film - for adults, and it gets an A+.
I theory we can tell how we feel about Dumas. Judge for yourself, though we doubt that really many will watch this film and travel divided disappointed.
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