Angélique Marquise des Anges (1964)
Country: FR/GER/IT
Technical: Eastmancolor/scope 115m
Director: Bernard Borderie
Cast: Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort
Synopsis:
In the period of Louis XIV a beautiful heiress is bartered in marriage by her bourgeois father to a nobleman of some notoriety. She soon learns to love him but the court is jealous of his wealth, namely his apparent alchemical power to manufacture gold.
Review:
The first of five filmed versions of a series of novels that appeared in the fifties, this coyly sexed-up romp is a Bardotesque answer to Alexandre Dumas with a gutsy heroine at its centre. It is of course more violent than sexy, though it is more revealing than the Bond movies of the period, clearly taking its cue from a certain brand of 18th century fiction and the permissiveness of the era. At heart it remains a compromised endeavour, on the one hand striving to be risqué, on the other reluctant to give up the family audience meal ticket. Miss Mercier, however, proved fetching enough to bring on four sequels.
Country: FR/GER/IT
Technical: Eastmancolor/scope 115m
Director: Bernard Borderie
Cast: Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort
Synopsis:
In the period of Louis XIV a beautiful heiress is bartered in marriage by her bourgeois father to a nobleman of some notoriety. She soon learns to love him but the court is jealous of his wealth, namely his apparent alchemical power to manufacture gold.
Review:
The first of five filmed versions of a series of novels that appeared in the fifties, this coyly sexed-up romp is a Bardotesque answer to Alexandre Dumas with a gutsy heroine at its centre. It is of course more violent than sexy, though it is more revealing than the Bond movies of the period, clearly taking its cue from a certain brand of 18th century fiction and the permissiveness of the era. At heart it remains a compromised endeavour, on the one hand striving to be risqué, on the other reluctant to give up the family audience meal ticket. Miss Mercier, however, proved fetching enough to bring on four sequels.
Country: FR/GER/IT
Technical: Eastmancolor/scope 115m
Director: Bernard Borderie
Cast: Michèle Mercier, Robert Hossein, Jean Rochefort
Synopsis:
In the period of Louis XIV a beautiful heiress is bartered in marriage by her bourgeois father to a nobleman of some notoriety. She soon learns to love him but the court is jealous of his wealth, namely his apparent alchemical power to manufacture gold.
Review:
The first of five filmed versions of a series of novels that appeared in the fifties, this coyly sexed-up romp is a Bardotesque answer to Alexandre Dumas with a gutsy heroine at its centre. It is of course more violent than sexy, though it is more revealing than the Bond movies of the period, clearly taking its cue from a certain brand of 18th century fiction and the permissiveness of the era. At heart it remains a compromised endeavour, on the one hand striving to be risqué, on the other reluctant to give up the family audience meal ticket. Miss Mercier, however, proved fetching enough to bring on four sequels.