“The Princess of Montpensier” is a French romance set in 16th century France and is the story of the young Marie de Mézières (Mélanie Thierry), heiress to one of France’s greatest fortunes. The film is an adaption of the 17th-century novel of the same name, generally recognized as the first historical novel in French literature.
As the title suggest, the story is as princess-centric as they come, and Thierry takes on the part of the fair-skinned princess whose extreme charms hypnotizes not one, not two, not three, but a total of four members of the French nobility including a prince, a count and two dukes.
It’s a soap opera, 16th-century style.
