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- The 1994 film La Reine Margot (Queen Margot) is very artsy, very French, and bloody as a butcher shop. It tells a "romantic" and fictionalized version of the events surrounding the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France in 1572, 446 years ago today.
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May 17, 2024 · La Reine Margot is based on the 1845 novel by Alexandre Dumas, which was in turn based (with quite a lot of dramatic licence) on real historical events; it was filmed at least three times...
For starters, "La Reine Margot" is the kind of screen epic that was on its last legs twenty years ago and is almost totally non-existent these days. It tells a complex story, dealing with historical and religious issues without dumbing things down or making everything black-and-white, and fills it with characters who are more three-dimensional ...
Aug 28, 2012 · La Reine Margot (or Marguerite de Valois), written by Alexandre Dumas in 1845, is the sensationalist and fictionalized story that Queen Margot is based on. Knowing that the film is based on a...
Aug 24, 2018 · The first thing is that the film-makers were making a movie version of the 1845 book by Alexandre Dumas, père (La Reine Margot, or in English Marguerite de Valois) rather than attempting a true historical account. Both the book and the movie emphasize the decadence of the courtiers, painting the Valois family as obscene, mad, and criminal ...
I watched the 1994 film version of 'La Reine Margot' years before I discovered it was based on a book by Dumas. The film is incredibly gothic, melodramatic, and gory, so I loved it. Naturally I had to read the novel too. As it turns out, the book is even more overwrought and violent, with the addition of wit.
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T he highpoint of Patrice Chéreau's compact but creditable career as a filmmaker is this lavish period production based on Alexandre Dumas's 1845 novel La Reine Margot , a work of French literature that has often been repudiated for its grotesque distortion of historical fact.
La Reine Margot is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas, père. Released in 1994, the film stars Isabelle Adjani as Margot, Vincent Perez as her lover La Môle, and Daniel Auteuil as Henri de Bourbon, the king of Navarre. Originally clocking in at roughly 160 minutes, the film was cut by twenty or so minutes for ...
