Angelique (1964)

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.

These 5 movies(1st few i guess are better than others mostly as we all know rarely u can keep high quality over same series...) are done with such a beauty that once you see it, it reminds you all those classics from usaThe story is such that its reminds me of era of count of monte christo or 3 musketeers, while story here is a lot more prolonged its still very captivatingMost importantly i think that because the era and some parts were truthful to certain extent(you really get the feeling on how it was then, how people acted and such) that you just get lost in that worldi seen this movie in europe maybe 10-12 years ago and yet to see in usa, but i feel that this is 1 of those movies which should get a grand remake with perhaps straight to video type of release(you cant really put this all in 2 hr movie its more like 2 hrs per book)movie itself gets 4 out of 5 for being very good but not exaclty honoring the movie though

I really do not understand how it is possible that one of the greatest movie series of 1960`s has got such a small amount of comments on this site. This opening movie of the five-part series is in my opinion one of the best. We can see a successful portrayal of rural France of 17th century, the splendour of the golden age of Lous XIV., the debauchery of the court of Versailles etc. Michelle Mercier is simply beautiful, Toja as Louis XIV. is very good as well. The film features some very well-acted scenes. I can recommend it to anyone who loves historical spectacles. This is one of the best ever filmed, I have doubts whether the present film-makers would manage to match it!