IMDb plot summary: Young Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.
Directed by Patrice Chéreau. Starring Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, and Vincent Perez.
I mostly found this... exhausting, for all the reasons I find Game of Thrones exhausting, and other things in a similar vein. Endless scheming and scandals and murders and family intrigue and way, way, way too many dark-haired bearded men who all look the same. I could only recognize about two of them by the end, and I just got tired of watching everyone betray everyone else. Because of that, it was refreshing to have Margot and Henry form an unusual sort of bond by the end of the film -- probably the only ones who had. It's becoming increasingly clear the more 1994 movies I watch that this was a year for bloated period pieces that should have been about an hour shorter, and this falls into that category.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Queen Margot < The Chalk Garden
Queen Margot > The Birthday Party
Queen Margot < Sarah, Plain and Tall
Queen Margot < After the Thin Man
Queen Margot < Rebel Without a Cause
Queen Margot > Bunraku
Queen Margot > Christmas on the Square
Queen Margot < The Little Princess (1939)
Queen Margot < Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Queen Margot < Where to Invade Next
Queen Margot < Ivan the Terrible, Part One
Queen Margot < My Favorite Wife
Final spot: #2388 out of 3286, or 27%.
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