FLICS: The Princess of Montpensier
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FLICS: The Princess of Montpensier
April 13, 2012
7:30 PM (Doors Open 7:00 PM)
Tickets
Admission is $5.00 per ticket at the door.
Film
Lovers International Cinema Society present "Princess of Montpensier." Dir. Bertrand Tavernier, 2010, France, 139 min, NR
As directed and co-written by veteran French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier with an expert cast, PRINCESS is a costume production rich in classic dramatic elements at a time when France was divided by a bloody religious war between Catholics and Protestant Huguenots. Beyond politics, what absorbs the audience is this film's unconventional love story about a 16th century princess named Marie and the four very different men who became intoxicated by this beautiful, intelligent and passionate woman. Burdened with too much attractiveness and too little power, the princess of Montpensier is never in a position to enjoy her advantages in this complicated tale. As the intricate psychological interplay with these men ebbs and flows, the princess finds herself constricted by the emotional minefield of her precarious position. Not just because she's a woman in a chauvinistic age but because she's a person who values genuine feelings in a brutally cynical world. Princess Marie is woman out of time who is troubled by her contemporary [16th century] concerns. Based on a 1622 novella. In French, with English subtitles.
