In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then vanishes, she bravely sets out to find him. This is the first of many dramas based on Anne and Serge Golon's novels about strong-willed Angélique and her adventures during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
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Sorry, this movie sucks
ridiculous rating
The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
When you watch today old films it reminds us to everything about how excellent those films were made.Plot is so interesting, I am still not sure was the book and the plot based on a true event. It shows something which was the beginning of the beginning of the French revolution, with remarkable sense for ancien regime.Acting is really excellent and all of the principal actors would probably get all kind of rewards today, but it looks to me they did not.All in all it is an excellent film for young girls to watch and get obsessed with finding a prince charming. ;)
Totally lost in time, and not even the Net can help me with this. To all fans of the Angelique films, I pose this question: There was, during the Seventies, a French TV show based on this character. I cannot track it down, as all my efforts boomerang towards the Michelle Mercier movies and the Anne Golan novels. I distinctly remember that while Angelique was being auctioned off at the slave market, there was this heinous auctioneer and a big, burly guy was banging a drum. Now, I have thoroughly watched my Angelique DVDs and this scene does not appear, so it is not as if I am confused by some re-edited TV version. No, it was a TV series, which I saw dubbed into Afrikaans (South African Dutch) + during the early Eighties there was something like a short-lived New Adventures of Angelique French TV series. My lament is that I do not know the titles of these, or the names of actresses, sweet nothing! I doubt if I could find them on DVD anyway, but first order of business is to track down their specifics. Anybody out there who can help?Oh, and the movie this site is about? My apologies for being a bit off-track here, as I'm just barging in with a related question, but speaking for the entire series of movies as a whole, it is quite something else. Controversial to the extreme, there are obviously people who wouldn't want to even hear about it, yet the majority of the fan base is bound to be women who would clearly see the slave market nudity and the sexual scenes in the proper context. This is the original bodice-ripper saga, and many a young girl of yesteryear remember it fondly. And not just in France. Please try to leave your helpful info on the site.
Although I'm not French but Russian... who actually lives in Australia but wants to travel around the world and go to France one day to improve her French ;-) But I love this movie... even more than I loved the book... It's absolutely brilliant and always inspires me so much. I think through all the years the main character has influenced my own character so much... that my friends sometimes say I act and even look a bit like Angelique.So I don't really think that the movie isn't well known... It beats all the modern Hollywood soapy dramas. And I absolutely vote for it!
Anne and her late husband Serge (Golon) wrote absorbing books,with brilliant depictions,be it the court of the Sun King,the Cour des Miracles or a royal galley.Serge Golon was an engineer,and his unusual culture surfaces in the novels:Descartes and analytical geometry,imaginary numbers.With his wife,they smartly blended fiction (Angelique's adventures) with historical facts(Louis XIV's wedding,the rise and fall of superintendent Fouquet,Madame de Montespan and the poisons affair,you name it.They were wonderful when they wrote pastiches of Madame De Sévigné's letters.The books were translated into many a language and deservedly gained a reputation abroad.(which they rarely have in their native France)What about the movies?They completely betray the Golon's excellent historical novels.Bernard Borderie gambled on the superficial plot and turned what could have been a mammoth melodrama à la "forever Amber"(Preminger)into a Barbara Cartlandesque saga.Michèle Mercier,a beautiful actress, provides a good-natured eroticism,in the tradition of Martine Carol in the fifties,but what can she do with such a script?Her career floundered after Angélique ,and however she showed some talent in Italian comedies before.Robert Hossein easily outclasses the rest of the cast.This is the kind of movie(s) that's (are) in need of (a) remake(s)!(a) remake(s) which would do the Golon family justice.