The Baby of Mâcon (1993) on Netflix
Cosimo III de' Medici's court watches a play set in Mâcon, a town barren for a generation. An old woman bears a boy, and her elder daughter sees profit in him.
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Plot summary
In Tuscany, Cosimo III de' Medici and his court watch a performance. The play concerns Mâcon, where women have been barren for a generation and famine has followed. A woman goes into labor; the midwives take it for a false labor because of her years and her looks, yet she delivers a healthy boy. Her husband, the Father, looks to sell potions that promise to cure impotence. Their elder daughter is drawn to the child and sees how much could be made from him. Years later she presents the boy as her own, born of a virgin, and a following gathers with gifts. The Bishop takes her claim for blasphemy, and the Bishop's Son cannot accept it: if she is a virgin the child is not hers, and if the child is hers she is no virgin.
Cast
- Jonathan Laceyas Cosimo Medici
- Frank Egertonas The Prompter
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
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- While filming a violent scene between Julia Ormond and Ralph Fiennes in a church hall, Peter Greenaway ate wine gums, and Ormond recalled hearing "rustle rustle munch munch". She said being naked in front of clothed people bothered her so much she did not know if she would break out in hives.
