Initially, Angelique rebels and tries to make love to the handsome Nicolas ( Mathieu Kassovitz) so that she’ll be defiled and thus won’t have to marry a man she doesn’t know. The riches of Peyrac, who had an accident in his youth and has a huge scar on his face and a limp as result, stem from a gold mining operation that utilizes a new technique to extract the precious metal, though his adversaries claim he’s a sorcerer who can turn things into gold. In the mid-1600s France, Angelique (Arnezeder) is married by her practically penniless aristocratic father ( Matthieu Boujenah) to the Count of Peyrac, a man whose fortune is so great, people whisper he’s practically as rich as the Sun King himself, Louis XIV ( David Kross), who’s still in his early 20s. There’s a nostalgia factor at work for French audiences, who’ll remember the original films or have since caught up via countless re-runs, that won’t offer quite the same draw abroad, though the film has already been sold to many European territories including Germany, much of Eastern Europe and Russia.
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