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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
A courtly historical tragedy with a young woman caught between private feeling, arranged power, and lethal religious politics; its measured grandeur and melancholy echo Tavernier’s intimate view of a violent era.
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Why this pick
Its medieval pageantry is anchored in social constraint, wounded pride, and the devastating consequences of aristocratic rivalry, with a similarly unsentimental sense of how love and honour become political weapons.
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Why this pick
Another French costume drama where dynastic marriage turns adolescence and desire into state business; it shares the cool, finely observed tension between personal longing and court calculation.
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Why this pick
Set amid the same French Wars of Religion, it combines sensual court intrigue with sectarian terror and a heroine navigating marriages, factions, and dangerous attachments on a more fevered scale.
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Why this pick
Though quieter and later in period, its restrained visual beauty and focus on a woman facing marriage as confinement offer the same ache of desire pressing against an inescapable social order.
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01 / THE STORY
Sickened at the meaningless bloodshed between Catholics and Protestants in the Wars of Religion, the Count of Chabannes decides to desert. Captured by bandits who are about to hang him, he is rescued by his former pupil, the Prince of Montpensier. The two ride to the castle of the Mézières family, where the prince's father has been negotiating a bride for his son. This is Marie, who is on intimate terms with her childhood friend, the powerful Duke of Guise. When Guise is outraged to hear that Marie is to be given to Montpensier, Chabannes tries to reconcile the two fiery young men who have drawn swords.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Marie de Montpensier
François de Chabannes
Henri de Guise
Philippe de Montpensier
Duc d'Anjou
Mayenne
Nicolas
La Valette
