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In 1324, Béatris de Planissoles, chatelaine of Montaillou in southwestern France was questioned by the Inquisition. She was accused of having illicit relations with a priest secretly won over by the Cathar heretics. Reading the minutes of her interrogation, we find a woman who, in the Middle Ages, defied the taboos of her to have a passionate love affair. Six centuries later this story inspired an opera by composer Jacques Charpentier, "Béatris de Planisolas," with a libretto by the poet René Nelli. Premiered at the Aix-en-Provence Music Festival in 1974, it remains the only opera in the Occitan dialect. The film interweaves excerpts from this opera and the authentic sworn statements of Beatrice before the Inqusition. Three women, a singer, an actor and an historian, relate this story of love, Cathars, sex and metaphysics.

France - 2003 - 25 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour and B&W

Director Michel Gayraud Script Michel Gayraud Camera Michel Gayraud Sound Patrick Level Editing Antoine Traverson Music Jacques Charpentier With Anne Barbier, Isabelle François, Anne Brenon

Production Oxo, 15, rue Auguste Comte, 34000 Montpellier, France Tél : +33 (0)4 6764 7111 Fax : +33 (0)4 6764 7111 E-mail : oxo.video@wanadoo.fr Co-Production France 3 Sud

Sales France 3 Sud, 24, chemin de la Cépière, 31081 Toulouse Cedex 1, France Tél : +33 (0)5 6223 9797 Fax : +33 (0)5 6140 9655