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La Reine Margot is a 1994 historical romantic drama film directed by Patrice Chéreau, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Danièle Thompson, based on the 1845 historical novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas.
Dec 9, 1994 · Queen Margot: Directed by Patrice Chéreau. With Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez. Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants.
Margaret of Valois (French: Marguerite, 14 May 1553 – 27 March 1615), popularly known as La Reine Margot, was a French princess of the Valois dynasty who became Queen of Navarre by marriage to Henry III of Navarre and then also Queen of France at her husband's 1589 accession to the latter throne as Henry IV.
The story begins in Paris in August 1572, during the reign of the Valois King Charles IX, it is the French Wars of Religion. The protagonist is Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, the daughter of the deceased Henry II. The antagonist is the scheming Catholic power player Catherine de Medici, Margot's mother.
May 20, 2014 · 20 years after it debuted at Cannes, a 4K restoration of the director's cut of "La Reine Margot" finally makes its way to the United States.
Dec 16, 1994 · When I saw "Queen Margot" for the first time in May 1994 at the Cannes Film Festival, it was like looking at the home movies of complete strangers - in this case, the French. All of the many, many characters on the screen were apparently intimately familiar to those around me, but I was at sea.
Dec 9, 1994 · Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.
An in-depth review of the film La Reine Margot (1994), aka Queen Margot, directed by Patrice Chereau, featuring Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade.
La Reine Margot is undoubtedly one of the great works of French cinematography of the nineties. It is a period piece with all the elements of a Greek tragedy combined with history, drama, and intense emotions bathed in blood and violence.
Paris, August, 1572 – a troubled time in the history of France, a country torn by wars and religious strife. To appease the Protestants, the queen mother, Catherine Medici, arranges a marriage between her daughter, Margot, and the King of Navarre, Henri.
