Jean Cosmos François-Olivier Rousseau Bertrand Tavernier
Story by
Madame de La Fayette
Produced by
Marc Silam Eric Heuman
Starring
Mélanie Thierry Gaspard Ulliel Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet Lambert Wilson Raphaël Personnaz
Cinematography
Bruno de Keyzer
Edited by
Sophie Brunet
Music by
Philippe Sarde
Production companies
Paradis Films StudioCanal
Distributed by
StudioCanal
Release dates
16 May 2010 (2010-05-16) (Cannes)
3 November 2010 (2010-11-03) (France)
Running time
139 minutes
Country
France
Language
French
Budget
$14.5 million [1]
Box office
$7 million [2]
The Princess of Montpensier (French: La Princesse de Montpensier) is a 2010 French period romance film directed by Bertrand Tavernier, inspired by a short story of the same name published anonymously by Madame de La Fayette in 1662. It stars Mélanie Thierry in the title role, alongside Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lambert Wilson and Raphaël Personnaz.
The film mixes fiction and history in the years of bloody conflict known as the Wars of Religion, which not only opposed Catholics with Protestants but also involved bitter power struggles between factions of the nobility and the royal family. The culminating event is the St Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572, during which mobs of armed Catholics hunted down and slaughtered thousands of their Protestant neighbours. Amid these dramatic events, the central story is that of the Princess, who loves a childhood friend but is forced into marriage with another man and is in turn loved by her older tutor.[3] The film competed at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival and was released in French cinemas on 3 November 2010.
^"La Princesse de Montpensier". JP's Box-Office.
^"The Princess of Montpensier (2011) - International Box Office Results - Box Office Mojo". www.boxofficemojo.com.
^Frois, Emmanuèle (1 December 2009). "Tavernier au bras de "La Princesse de Montpensier"". Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved 17 April 2010.
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