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The Princess of Montpensier, Movie

The Princess of Montpensier (La princesse de Montpensier) 2010

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Passion destroys everything.

Romantic and political drama set in the high courts of 16th century France, against the backdrop of the savage Catholic/Protestant war under the reign of Charles IX.  Follows the love triangle between the Princess, the Prince and her tutor. From veteran director Bertrand Tavernier (‘Round Midnight). More

Beautiful aristocrat Marie de Mézières (Mélanie Thierry) is arranged to marry Prince de Montpensier (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) by her father, in an effort to secure a position at court. But the new Princess of Montpensier is haunted by a rakish suitor from her childhood (Gaspard Ulliel) and advised by an aging nobleman (Lambert Wilson), who harbours his own forbidden desire for her. Marie struggles to stay alive amongst this corrupt web of duty, passion, religion and war. Hide

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Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Enters the field of the swashbuckling romance, so littered with our memories of other films, and conquers it with a startling freshness. Full review.

Guardian (UK)

It gallops along as elegantly and confidently as the horsemen we see in the opening scene - part bodice-ripper, part patrician soap opera, and part romantic tragedy. Full review.

Little White Lies (UK)

It's clear that Tavernier has set out to show the potency and relevance of a classic love story and that period romance is by no means a dead genre. On this evidence, he has a point. Full review.

Los Angeles Times

Epic and intimate, historical and contemporary, moving and thought-provoking. Full review.

New York Times

Tavernier deploys some smart ideas in this film... but there's something a bit goatish in his attention to some female charms. Full review.

Total Film (UK)

Robustly acted and dynamically photographed; Tavernier is equally adept at directing intimate encounters as choreographing savage battles, conveying the sense of a society tearing itself apart. Full review.

Variety (USA)

Like its heroine, has both beauty and brains and offers a portrait of renaissance life leagues more accurate than the most historical epics. Full review.