Mademoiselle De Joncquières (Lady J)

Director Emmanuel Mouret’s Mademoiselle De Joncquières (Lady J) is a somewhat disjointed revenge tale in which a dispassionate widow Madame de La Pommeraye (Cécile de France) gives into the charms of a libertine Marquis (Edouard Baer).

When he betrays her, she concocts a plot with two women from a brothel (Alice Isaaz and Natalia Dontcheva) to ruin him.

The pacing of the story is disjointed and jumpy in the first act and doesn’t really settle down to be watchable until the third act.  It seems more an excuse to wear fancy dresses than be a film.  And, I say that as a big fan of Cécile de France, who does her best to keep the film interesting.

And, why they expanded the title from Lady J is a mystery, but does show the puffery of this production.

I give Mademoiselle De Joncquières (Lady J) a 2.7 out of 5.