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Angelique: The Road to Versailles (Merveilleuse Angélique, 1965) is a costume melodrama with an adventurous streak that you can watch online on iFILM. Bernard Borderie directs this second chapter of the celebrated French saga, a co-production of France, Italy and Germany, with Michèle Mercier in the title role.
Her husband has been burned at the stake, leaving the young widow alone in the gutters of Paris. She is taken in by Nicolas, the king of the city's thieves and a friend from her childhood. When a rival gang attacks, he buys her escape with his own life. From there fortune turns sharply: Angelique marries the Marquis du Plessis-Bellière and climbs toward the court itself. One goal drives her — reach Versailles and make the king pay for the death of her first husband.
Around Mercier you will spot a young Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Rochefort and Giuliano Gemma. The film thrives on contrast, putting the mud of the Paris underworld and the gold of the royal halls in the same frame. For anyone who loves old European cinema full of scheming, corsets and revenge, this entry moves at a brisk, easy pace. Stream Angelique: The Road to Versailles (1965) online on iFILM.
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