Movies - Comédie-Française's "Ruy Blas"

Thwarted love, dishonor, unspoken desire, impossible emancipation… This season, the Comédie-Française at the Movies explores the great human passions through four masterpieces of the French repertoire.

Having fallen out of favor with the Queen of Spain, Don Salluste seeks revenge. To this end, he forces his valet, Ruy Blas, to pose as a nobleman in order to get close to the young queen. Secretly in love with her, Ruy Blas agrees. Now a man of power, he puts his intelligence to work for the state and seeks to put an end to corruption. But Salluste’s Machiavellian plan is closing in…
— This seminal work of the repertoire, first performed in 1879 at the Comédie-Française, has not been staged there for twenty-five years. It is directed by Julie Duclos, who aims to capture every facet of this Romantic masterpiece: moving from drama to comedy, from the concrete to the lyrical, without ever losing sight of the fact that a man’s life is at stake.
Starring: The Comédie-Française troupe
Country: France