Optimum Releasing have sent us the UK trailer & Artwork for Betrand Tavernier's THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER (Le Princesse De Montpensier). The movie is an French period romance drama which stars Melanie Thierry, Gaspard Ulliel, Leprince-Ringuet, and Lambert Wilson and is based on a novel by Madame De La Fayette.
1562. In France, during the reign of Charles IX, the wars of religion are raging...
Marie de Mézières, heiress to one of the kingdom’s greatest fortunes, loves the young Duc de Guise, known in the annals of history as Le Balafré, “Scarface”. She believes he loves her back. To increase his family’s prestige, her father, the Marquis de Mézières forces Marie to marry the Prince de Montpensier, whom she has never met.The Prince is summoned by Charles IX to join the war against the Protestants. With the whole country turned into a bloody battlefield, he sends his young wife to Champigny, one of his most secluded castles, in the company of the Comte de Chabannes, his friend and former tutor. The Prince asks Chabannes to complete the Princess’s education so that she can take her place at court one day.In unhappy isolation at Champigny, Marie tries to forget the passionate longing she still feels for Guise. Fate and the changing course of the war lead Guise and the Duc d’Anjou, the future Henri III , to stay at Champigny shortly after Montpensier has joined Marie there. In turn, Anjou falls in love with the Princess, to whose charms Chabannes has also succumbed.
A violent, passionate rivalry develops with Marie as the prize.
Cinehouse's Dexter recently watched a recent preview of the movie, stay tuned for his review, for now check out the UK trailer and artwork below. THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER will be released in UK& Ireland on July 8th.
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