Queen Margot

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Queen Margot

R,

1994,

2h 23m,

History/

Drama

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82%

34 Reviews

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5,000+ Ratings

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34 Reviews

88%

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5,000+ Ratings

Margot (Isabelle Adjani) is one of several in line to inherit the crown in France, where Roman Catholics and Protestants are jockeying for power. Margot's mother, Catherine de Medici (Virna Lisi), is intent on seeing her son take the throne once the reign of King Charles IX (Jean-Hugues Anglade) ends. After being married to a man she doesn't love and starting a tryst with one she does, Margot contends with her mother's at-all-costs plan to control the political fate of the volatile country.

David Ansen

Newsweek

Feb 21, 2018

It's Romeo and Juliet knee-deep in carnage, staged with Jacobean fury, lurid sensuality and high style by the recklessly gifted Chereau.

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Scott Tobias

The Dissolve

Aug 26, 2014

4/5

That's a lot of plot-and plotting-to sort out, and while Chreau and co-writer Danile Thompson occasionally fail to explicate it clearly, the center of the film holds strong.

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

May 15, 2014

A model of heaving, combustible history, in which period lavishness and performance energy aren't mutually exclusive.

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Mal Vincent

The Virginian-Pilot

Mar 2, 2022

3/4

If you like historical costume pieces, this is your ticket. Be warned, though, that the level of violence is high.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Nov 3, 2020

3.5/5

An elegant costume drama with significant historical context reconstructed as a soap opera of sexual conquests hidden by the veneer of warring religious regimes, Queen Margot is scintillating cinema.

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Quentin Curtis

Independent on Sunday

Dec 12, 2017

The achievement of Chereau's film is to reveal the people, in all their squalor and occasional grace, behind the myth of royalty -- that, and to make two-and-a-half hours zip by.

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Harry P

Apr 27, 2019

wonderful film, adaptation and dramatisation of one of the bloodiest pages of French history. Every single speaking actor justifies his/her casting. From the ever stunning Isabelle Adjani to Virna Lisi and Asia Argento, and particularly Jean Hugues Anglade in the role of the (sick) King. Five stars!

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Margot

Daniel Auteuil

Henri IV

Jean-Hugues Anglade

Charles IX

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Catherine de Médicis

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Synopsis

Margot (Isabelle Adjani) is one of several in line to inherit the crown in France, where Roman Catholics and Protestants are jockeying for power. Margot's mother, Catherine de Medici (Virna Lisi), is intent on seeing her son take the throne once the reign of King Charles IX (Jean-Hugues Anglade) ends. After being married to a man she doesn't love and starting a tryst with one she does, Margot contends with her mother's at-all-costs plan to control the political fate of the volatile country.

Director: Patrice Chéreau
Producer: Claude Berri
Screenwriter: Alexandre Dumas, Danièle Thompson, Patrice Chéreau
Distributor: Miramax Films
Production Co: ARD Degeto Film, WMG Film, France 2 Cinéma, Canal+, Centre National du Cinéma et de L'image Animée, Miramax, Eurimages, Renn Productions
Rating: R
Genre: History, Drama
Original Language: Canadian French
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 16, 1994, Original
Rerelease Date (Theaters): May 9, 2014
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $11.3K
Runtime: 2h 23m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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