Movie Description:
The Princess of Montpensier is a riveting, lush romanticdrama set in thehigh courts of 16th Century France. Againstthe backdrop of the savageCatholic/Protestant wars, Mariede Mezieres, a beautiful young aristocrat, finds herself married to a young prince she does not love, haunted by a rakishsuitor from her childhood, and advised by an aging nobleman, harborig his own forbidden desire for her. The Princess of Montpensier must strugglepassionately to stay alive in the intrigue of this corrupt political and romantic web ofduty, passion, religion and war.