La Reine Margot

One of my long-time favorite French films is La Reine Margot or Queen Margot. A true story written in 1845 by Alexandre Dumas pere (The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo), in 1994 it was made into a film filled with heavy hitter French actors Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteil, Jean-Hugues Anglade and Vincent Perez. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe, an Oscar and won 5 Cesars (the French Oscar) as well as a plethora of other nominations and awards. In other words, an excellent film.

It is a racy, sexy, romantic, adventurous, period epic about the Massacre of St. Bartholomew the night of August 24, 1572. This was a fascinating time in French history as Catherine of Medici ruled France by manipulating her own children with assassination, poisoning, assault, incest and imprisonment. In 1572 a religious war was raging between the Catholics and the Protestants. Catherine de Medici forced her Catholic daughter, Margot, into a marriage with a Protestant Prince. On their wedding night, Catherine arranges for her new son-in-law's entourage and thousands of other Protestants to be massacred.



Bonne seance de cinema! Gros bisous et a demain!

Love, Charley