Lady J (2018)

Original title

Mademoiselle de Joncquières

Directed by

Emmanuel Mouret

Genre

drama film, romance film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

6

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 292 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy widow in pre-revolutionary France plots revenge after her lover abandons her. She and an ally scheme to humiliate him through a complicated deception involving a young woman.

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What happens

Lady J (French: Mademoiselle de Joncquières) is a 2018 French period drama film written and directed by Emmanuel Mouret, based on a story in Denis Diderot's novel Jacques the Fatalist. Set in the Kingdom of France before 1789, it follows Madame de La Pommeraye (Cécile de France), an attractive widow abandoned by her bachelor lover, the Marquis des Arcis (Édouard Baer). The film had its world premiere at the Platform section of the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September. It was theatrically released in France by Pyramide Distribution on 12 September, and was a box office success. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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