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Cohen Media Group is proud to announce the new restoration of Patrice Chéreau’s lavish historical drama QUEEN MARGOT (1994), starring Isabelle Adjani in the title role which will open at Film Forum on Friday, May 9 followed by a national roll out.

France, 1572, and during an uneasy break in the wars of religion, Jean-Hugues Anglade’s King Charles IX concludes a marriage of state between his sister, Isabelle Adjani’s Catholic Margot, and Daniel Auteuil’s Huguenot King Henry of Navarre, by ramming forward a reluctant Adjani’s head in lieu of a ‘Oui’. But Virna Lisi’s skull-faced Queen Mother/Regent is already plotting the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, and that’s just the beginning of the head-snapping side switches, non-stop scheming, sometimes accidental poisoning, double beheadings, and frenzied couplings, including Adjani’s throbbingly romantic affair with Vincent Perez’s La Môle.

The late Patrice Chéreau’s high octane adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel begins in fifth gear and never lets up, plunging in hip deep in history and into a dizzying array of characters, with passionate performances and a riveting, horrific staging of the Massacre. Winner of the Best Actress (Virna Lisi) Jury Prize, at the 1994 Cannes Festival,Margot was originally released in the U.S. in a truncated version – this is the complete 159-minute director’s cut. DCP.

Committed to not only theatrical rerelease but restoration and preservation, the Cohen Media Group purchased the renowned Rohauer Library of over 700 films; 500 features together with 200 shorts including all the original work of Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith as well as many sound classics from 1920's through the late 1960's. Cohen has also licensed over 20 French cinema classics. This collection of classic and fully restored cinema landmarks is now known as The Cohen Film Collection, officially launched in 2013.