Manon Lescaut (TV Movie 2013)
29K Drama Genre History Romance Abbé Prévost Brigitte Aubry Céline Perreau Fleur Lise Heuet Gabriel Aghion Jean-Baptiste Shelmerdine Julien Enthoven Laurent Stocker Michel Beaulieu Ornella Boulé Pascal Henault Pierre Moure Rémi Waterhouse Robert Hirsch Samuel Theis Xavier Gallais 2013 6.8 France French Gabriel Aghion
Manon Lescaut: Directed by Gabriel Aghion. With Céline Perreau, Samuel Theis, Xavier Gallais, Laurent Stocker. There is nothing we can do against the call of love. Amiens, 1713. Des Grieux is a noble young student, wise for his years, who’s preparing to become a knight of the Order of Malta. With a fine future as a teacher of rhetoric ahead of him, he meets a young commoner, Manon Lescaut, a candle maker’s daughter. It’s love at first sight.
“It would be very easy to ruin this story with biased filmmaking, but this adaptation keeps a nice distance from the narrative and lets us form our own sympathies. I liked the production values, the costumes and the actors. Worth watching!”
