Incest, cruel siblings, kingslayers and kinslayers, a powerful queen mother, intrigues, betrayals, slaughters, poisonings, beheadings... Game of Thrones has nothing on the darkest pages of French history!

Sister of the King of France, Charles IX (Jean-Hugues Anglade), and daughter of the infamous Catherine de Medici (Virna Lisi), Margot (Isabelle Adjani, more stunning than ever) is young, beautiful, elegant, and Catholic. She is to be sacrificed on the wedding altar and married to the coarse, smelly, and Protestant Henri, King of Navarre (Daniel Auteuil), to put an end to the interminable religious wars that plagued 16th century France. But as Protestant (or Huguenot, as protestants were called in France at the time) aristocrats pack the city to attend the wedding, an assassination attempt triggers a bloody chain of events that will lead to wholesale slaughter on the night of August 24, 1572: the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. Caught in the midst of this tragedy, and her mother's plot to place her favorite son, the ruthless Anjou (Pascal Greggory), on the throne, Margot, who despises her husband, tries to escape her destiny by falling in love...

The SFFF is pleased to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Queen Margot and honor one of France’s most acclaimed filmmakers and stage directors, Patrice Chéreau (Gabrielle – SFFF 2006), who passed away last October. The triumphant winner of five César Awards, Queen Margot is presented in a digitally restored director’s cut that is not to be missed!

Shown with The Field and the Knower by JD Rudometkin - LOCAL FILMMAKER!