Broadcast this Friday, November 1 at 9:05 p.m. on France 5, this French film with sumptuous period costumes starring Cécile de France will delight fans of Dangerous connections de Stephen Frears.
Head to the nobility of the 18th century this Friday, November 1, 2024 with the broadcast of the film at 9:05 p.m. Mademoiselle de Joncquièresfreely adapted from a passage from the famous novel by Denis Diderot: Jacques the Fatalist. The formidable Belgian actress Cécile de France plays a certain Madame de la Pommeraye, an attractive young widow who succumbs to the charm of the libertine Marquis des Arcis, played by Edouard Baer. But little by little abandoned by the latter, she, then devastated, foments a cruel revenge.
How did the idea for the film come about? Mademoiselle de Joncquières with Cécile de France?
For his ninth production, Emmanuel Mouret takes us into the French 18th century, freely adapting an extract from Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot. A novel which greatly marked the filmmaker for its modernity, as he recalls in the press kit you film : “It is an often reread story, which struck me, moved me greatly, especially its ending. The modernity of this story seemed striking to me, by which I mean that what is modern is what does not age and spans time. The desires, the feelings, the impulses, the conflicts that cross the characters and the questions that the story raises seem very contemporary to me. The moral questions that the 18th century asks are still at work today. During and after the Regency, society was split like never before, like ours, between profane love, the taste for pleasure, and a more sacred love, libertines or not, those who lived through this era are as internally split as we are. we are today.“
A film similar to Dangerous connections ?
At first glance, whether for its setting or its plot, Mademoiselle de Joncquières is reminiscent of the literary classic Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos and should certainly delight fans of Stephen Frears’ film, released in 1988. Emmanuel Mouret assures him that there is a major distinction between the two works, although they are similar in certain aspects: “There is no cynicism in Diderot, the characters are not disillusioned. However, Madame de Merteuil and Madame de La Pommeraye undeniably have things in common. Both Diderot and Laclos paint portraits of women whose intelligence surpasses that of men and this is not a common trait in the literature of yesteryear. In addition, they are both independent women because they are nobles and widows. We must not forget that noble widows and rich courtesans were the first women who did not depend on the authority of a husband“.
