PERIOD SET FILMS
TO EXPECT FROM FRANCE
Hollywood Spy is bringing you web's most extensive spotlight on all the period set movies we can expect from France, starting with
A MASTER OF ARMS (Maître d’armes) which will be directed by
Vincent Peres who is also directing. Paris, 1887. In a rapidly changing society, where dueling is the
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Vincent Peres will star and direct
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last way out to uphold one's honour, Clément Lacaze, charismatic fencing master, and Marie-Rose Astié de Valsayre, a feminist ahead of her time, will fight side by side, ignoring the threats and dangers that await them.
Roschdy Zem,
Doria Tillier and
Denis Podalydès
also star.
MADAME DE SEVIGNE
With Karin Viard in the title role, it will also star
Ana Girardot,
Cédric Kahn, and
Noémie Lvovsky. In the middle of the 17th century, the Marquise de Sévigné wanted to make her daughter a brilliant and independent woman, in her image. But the more she tries to have a hold on the destiny of the young woman, the more she alienates her. Mother and daughter then experience the pangs of a singular and devastating passion. From this devastation will be born a major work of French literature.
THE SHADOW OF CARAVAGGIO
Directed by
Michele Placido, this co production between France and Italy will also star
Riccardo Scamarcio, Louis Garrel, Isabelle Huppert.
Italy, in 1600. The adventurous life of the great 16th century Italian painter, Caravaggio. A disturbing figure is responsible for investigating the latter because his art is deemed subversive.
THE LAST QUEEN
aka
La Dernière reine will star
Adila Bendimerad, Dali Benssalah, Tahar Zaoui! Year is 1516, Legend says that the King of Algiers had a wife named Zaphira. When the pirate Aroudj Barbarossa arrives to liberate the city
from the Spaniards, he is determined to conquer Zaphira as well as the kingdom itself. But is Zaphira ready to let him or is she plotting for herself?
POMARE, LAST QUEEN OF TAHITI
aka
Pomaré, la dernière reine de Tahiti will star
Tuheï Adams, Alexia Barlier, Bernard Le Coq and
Terence Telle. In the kingdom of the lagoons where custom dictates that only men can become kings young Aïmata
Pomare will break this law. Faced with the hostility of her peers, threatened by the greed of England and France, Aïmata, a young Tahitian princess, will try to save her traditions and her people in order to offer her a destiny. This is how she will become the last queen of Tahiti and make peace with France.
THE FURCY SLAVE AFFAIR
aka
L'Affaire de l’esclave Furcy will be an adaptation of
Mohammed Aïssaoui's novel. It will tell the true story of Furcy, a slave on a plantation on
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Riccardo Scamarcio
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Bourbon Island (Reunion), who decided in October 1817 to take his master to court to demand his freedom. After many twists and turns, this affair which lasted more than twenty years will find its denouement in Paris in 1843 at the Royal Cessation Court.
CONCE- SSION
aka La Concession by director Aurelia Raoull. 1867. Charlotte is part of a convoy of women sent to New Caledonia to populate this new French colony. While this 17-year-old orphan is won over by the Kanak spirits of Caledonian land, she revolts against her husband and the colonial system...
WIN OR DIE
Also known as
VAINCRE OU MOURIR has already been shot and is currently in the process of post production which means we can show you the first photos from this historical war movie directed together by
Paul Mignot and
Vincent Mottez and a rather strong cast of French superstars led by
Hugo Becker, Gregory Fitoussi, Jonathan Demurger, Jean Hugues Anglade
and
Rod Paradot. To be distributed by our favourite StudioCanal, this historical action war movie should troop into cinemas sometime next year.
THE STORY OF WIN OR DIE
follows
the adventures of Charette (played here by French star
Hugo Becker),
naval officer, winner of the American War of Independence, who
sees his
life changed in 1793 when he engages in a final fight for freedom.
François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie (2 May 1763 – 29 March 1796)
was a Breton Royalist soldier and politician. He served in the French
Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War and was one of the
leaders of the Revolt in the Vendée against the revolutionary regime
during which the
peasant fighters asked Charette to be their leader.
During the very brutal war in which republicans massacred many people,
he won numerous battles but was captured and executed when he was just
32.
Caravaggio, ignores Catholic Church rulings that dictate how religious
subjects are to be represented. Having been informed that he depicts
prostitutes, 
thieves and vagabonds in his work, Pope Paul V orders the
Vatican secret service to investigate, to decide whether to grant the
clemency for which 
Caravaggio has petitioned since being sentenced to
death for the murder of a rival in love.
The investigator (Garrel) – known as The Shadow - begins the
inquiry
that will lead him to discover the conflicting vices and virtues of the
artist whose life – or death – lies in his hands.
Caravaggio, ignores Catholic Church rulings that dictate how religious
subjects are to be represented. Having been informed that he depicts
prostitutes, 
thieves and vagabonds in his work, Pope Paul V orders the
Vatican secret service to investigate, to decide whether to grant the
clemency for which 
Caravaggio has petitioned since being sentenced to
death for the murder of a rival in love.
The investigator (Garrel) – known as The Shadow - begins the
inquiry
that will lead him to discover the conflicting vices and virtues of the
artist whose life – or death – lies in his hands.
