Queen Margot returns to the cinema in restored version
The historic fresco emerges upstream from a retrospective devoted to Patrice Chéreau.
A French cinema monument offers a facelift for its 30th anniversary. Queen Margot will come out in the dining room on October 1 in a restored version which was presented last year at the Lumière festival. The opportunity to (re) discover on the big screen this adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas.
Directed by Patrice Chéreau, and co-written with Danièle Thompson, Queen Margot puts On stage Isabelle Adjani in the title role, headliner of an exceptional cast: Daniel Auteuil, Dominique Blanc, Vincent Perez, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Virna Lisi, Asia Argento, Pascal Greggory or Jean-Claude Brialy.
The film tells the life of Marguerite de Valois, called “Margot”, of his wedding with Henri de Navarre, future Henri IV (Auteuil), passing by the massacre of Saint-Barthélemy and his idyll with “La Môle” (Vincent Perez). A large fresco of the costume, with a staggering budget for the time (140 million francs, or more than 20 million euros).
In competition at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, Queen Margot Receives the jury prize there and the female interpretation prize for Virna Lisi. He will also win five César, including the best actress for Isabelle Adjani. The criticism is nevertheless mixed, but the film brings together more than two million indoor spectators.
This emergence of Queen Margot Will be followed, on November 5, of a retrospective devoted to Patrice Chéreau, with five other films on the program: Judith therpauve,, The injured man,, Hôtel de France,, Those who love me will take the train And Gabrielle.
