Philippe Sarde - The Princess Of Montpensier (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Bertrand Tavernier ('Round Midnight) directs this lush, unsentimental take on the historical romance, which takes a clear-eyed look at the intersection of passion and power in 16th-century France at the height of a civil war between Catholics and Huguenots. The Marquis de M�zi�res (Philippe Magnan) is eager to form an alliance with the Duc de Montpensier (Michel Vuillermoz), and though his young, beautiful daughter Marie (M�lanie Thierry, The Legend Of 1900) favors war hero Henri de Guise (Gaspard Ulliel), she's married off to the Montpensier's son Philippe (Gr�goire Leprince-Ringuet). Once at court, she inspires love, violence, and thirst for power in the men around her - including her new tutor, the Comte de Chabannes (Lambert Wilson) - as civil war tears the country apart. Adapted from the classic novel by Madame de La Fayette, The Princess of Montpensier was an official selection at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.