The Princess of Montpensier

Cast
Melanie Thierry
Lambert Wilson
Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet
Gaspard Ulliel
Raphael Personnaz
Anatole De Bodinet
Florence Thomasin
Writers
Bertrand Tavernier
François-Olivier Rousseau
Jean Cosmos
Madame de La Fayette
Director
Bertrand Tavernier
Running Time
139m 42s

In The Princess of Montpensier, acclaimed filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier directs a spectacular cast in a riveting, lush romantic drama set in the high courts of 16th Century France. Against the backdrop of the savage Catholic/Protestant wars, Marie de Mézières, a beautiful young aristocrat, finds herself married to a young prince she does not love, haunted by a rakish suitor Gaspard Ulliel from her childhood, and advised by an aging nobleman Lambert Wilson, harboring his own forbidden desire for her. The Princess of Montpensier must struggle passionately to stay alive in the intrigue of this corrupt political and romantic web of duty, passion, religion and war. (IFC Films)

Detailed enjoyable story but long and it felt it.