Princess of Montpensier, The

Striking cinematography, gorgeous scenery, and lavish costumes highlight this engaging, romantic, 139-minute, 2010 Bertrand Tavernier film, which is adapted from Madame de Lafayette's 1662 classic novel, about a wealthy, lovely, charismatic French heiress (Mélanie Thierry) in 1567 who confides her dismay, unhappiness, and troubles to her smitten nobleman tutor (Lambert Wilson) after her politically motivated marquis father (Philippe Magnan) forces her to marry a jealous, albeit handsome French prince (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet) whom she has never met during the bloody civil war between the Catholics and Huguenots despite her longtime love for a dashing duke (Gaspard Ulliel), a cousin with whom she grew up.
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