Marquise

The rise and fall of a beauteous actress

A spirited period drama about an ambitious actress's rise through 17th-century French court society, balancing ribald charm with the melancholy of inevitable decline.

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.