Mademoiselle de Joncquières
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2019
February 28 - March 10, 2019
The widowed Madame de La Pommeraye (Cécile de France) concocts an elaborate revenge plot to sabotage an ex-lover (Edouard Baer) in this deliciously calculating twist on Denis Diderot’s Jacques the Fatalist.
Q&A with Emmanuel Mouret on March 1
In Emmanuel Mouret’s witty twist on Denis Diderot’s 18th-century novel Jacques the Fatalist, also the inspiration for Bresson’s Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne, passion dissipates into jealousy and hardens into vengeance. The widowed Madame de La Pommeraye (Cécile de France) prides herself on maintaining a rational distance from matters of the heart, but against her better judgment, she gives in to a persistent and charming Marquis (Edouard Baer). When the affair loses its glow and the Marquis slips back into his libertine lifestyle, the Madame concocts an elaborate revenge plot, and finds two susceptible pawns in a mother and daughter duo (Alice Isaaz and Natalia Dontcheva) whose own social standing was sabotaged by a dishonest husband. Of a deliciously calculating piece with Dangerous Liaisons, Mademoiselle de Joncquières weds a critique of privilege to an enthralling tale of deception. Nominated for six César Awards including Best Actress, Actor, Screenplay, Cinematography, and Costumes.
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