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Why see a movie about Eleaonor of Aquitaine? A journey back in time recalls the origins of modern love lived by a woman who runs the gamut. forgotten human behaviors. The beginnings of a new code of behavior. 1000 years ago is a world that looks different with another way of speaking, a new way to dressing up including forbidden clothes of the mid east, troubadour love music invigorated with Arabic poetry, all perfectly shocking then as it would be now.

TIMES: 1137 to 1204

PLACE: Bordeaux, Paris, Rome, Constantinople, Antioch, Jerusalem, London, Poitier, Westminster, Stonehenge, Fontevraud

FEATURES:

• A magnificent and heroic woman's role among larger than life men and women of the time.
• Chivalry at its origin in France and England.
• The sensational journey of the men and woman of the 2nd Crusade.
• Strange mix of spiritual, sexual, and personal family life.
• An Islamic point of view balancing a Christian point of view.
• New myth of love experienced in feelings of love in all ages of life.
• The lost music and style of the troubadours.
• Forgotten art of romance with the world's first engagement rings and Valentines rituals.
• Outrageous personal fashion of costumes of the time.
• The origins of Cirque de Soliel.
• The creation of romantic customs - engagement rings, flowers, letters, songs.
• The invention of stained glass, paper, wind mills.
• The greatest city on Earth now lost - Constantinople - the epic destruction of their World Trade Center, by Christians against the Muslims.
• Witness a true miracle in the Holy Lands.
• Chivalry in love, faith and belief.
• Incredible feasts, imaginative parties.
• The daring adventures of knight William Marshall.
• Archbishop Thomas Becket's spiritual struggle. (expansion of "Becket")
• The human faith of Suger of Dennis vs the stern faith of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux .
• Spiritually detached King Louis VII of France
• Dynamic character of King Henry II of England
• Restoring Eleanor of Aquitaine's character and achievements (replacing "Lion in Winter")
• Glory, sexuality, creation and intrigue of the "Courts of Love"
• Heroic Richard the Lion Heart and his brother the sinister King John
• The origin of King Arthur's tales.
• The persona upon whom Joan of Arc and Queen Elizabeth looked to.
• Truestory of Eleanor of Aquitaine who experienced every form of human love.
• A full and victorious life with a suprise ending.

But you will walk away from the film

• Reborn with a sense of romance, desiring to give love as Eleanor.
• Wanting to do as right as the great chivalrous knight Marshal.
• Thinking about today's situation in the Mideast, Europe and the World.
• Feeling alive, tingling to remember this story as a myth.