La reine Margot (1994)

Actors: Philippe Duclos (actor), Vincent Perez (actor), Johan Leysen (actor), Miguel Bosé (actor), Jean-Hugues Anglade (actor), Thomas Kretschmann (actor), Pascal Greggory (actor), Claudio Amendola (actor), Jean-Claude Brialy (actor), Daniel Auteuil (actor), Ivo Canelas (actor), Marc Citti (actor), Grégoire Colin (actor), Barbet Schroeder (actor), Emmanuel Salinger (actor),

Plot: The night of August 24, 1572, is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois, sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX, and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults, poisonings, and instigations to incest.

Keywords: 1570s, adultery, based-on-novel, bourbon, catholic, catholic-church, character-name-in-title, christian-religion, decapitation, female-frontal-nudity
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance,

Quotes:

[as Henri and Margot walk down the aisle after being married]::Henri: Your mother hates me.::Margot: Yours hated me.::Henri: Yours *killed* mine.

Charles IX: One who gives life is no longer a mother once she takes that life back.

Margot: La Mole would die for us!::Henri: For *us*?::Margot: Yes, for us.::Henri: He'd die for another night with you.

Anjou: Welcome to the family Henri; it's a bit peculiar but not that bad.

Coconnas: You come for the wedding?::La Môle: No. That Margot is an evil whore. The wedding shames us all.

La Môle: You smelt of jasmine that morning. I thought: maybe she's ugly under her mask. Or disfigured. But it didn't matter. You wouldn't let me kiss you. [they kiss] I thought, she's even lonelier than me. She loves as though she is seeking revenge.

La Môle: Promise me something. They say death always took your lovers. They say you lock their hearts in gold boxes around your bed.::Margot: They do? What else? That at night, wearing a mask, I roam the city, looking for love?::La Môle: One day you'll know who you really are. Promise you won't forget me... the one you shouldn't have loved.::Margot: I promise.

Catherine de Médicis: [to Henri de Navarre] The Protestants believe you betrayed them. They can't understand. What is betrayal but one's skill in following the flow of events?

Catherine de Médicis: I love my three children. I mean, all four of them.

Le Cardinal: Henri de Bourbon, do you take Marguerite de Valois as your wife?::Henri: I do.::Le Cardinal: Marguerite de Valois, do you take Henri de Bourbon, King of Navarre, as your husband? [there is a pause] Marguerite de Valois, do you take... In the name of God, and His Holy Church, I join you in matrimony.