The Lady and the Duke (Subtitled) PG-13

The Lady and the Duke (Subtitled)
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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 1, 2002
  • Originally Released: 2002
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 1,251
...The sincerity of the enterprise of storytelling and the pairing-down to the essential concentrate our attention on the human complexities of a tragic tale that is well worth retelling...
Sight and Sound
Feb 1, 2002
Rating: B- -- Though not one of Rohmer best films, it's worth seeing for the acting and the dialogue which magnify the glory of the French language. Amazingly, at 81, Rohmer continues to be productive; rejection of film by Cannes Festival stirred controversy in 2001 Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Feb 14, 2007
Rating: 4/5 -- Nothing short of a technical marvel and a ravishing movie to look at. Full Review
Toronto Star
Jul 26, 2002
Rating: 3/4 -- Leave it to Rohmer, now 82, to find a way to bend current technique to the service of a vision of the past that is faithful to both architectural glories and commanding open spaces of the city as it was more than two centuries ago.
Detroit News
Sep 27, 2002
...The technique is impressive...
Entertainment Weekly
Jun 7, 2002
Rating: 3/5 -- At 135-minutes, this stream-of-facts lecture trembles into the trenches of monotony without the detraction of technology. Full Review
eFilmCritic.com
Dec 22, 2003
...This fascinating experiment plays as more of a poetic than a strict reality, creating an intriguing species of artifice that gives THE LADY AND THE DUKE something of a theatrical air...
Los Angeles Times
May 10, 2002

Product Description:

This visually breathtaking film from New Wave director Eric Rohmer uses hand-painted sets that depict 18th-century Paris, the English lady's home, and the surrounding countryside with a vivid effect that looks like a realist oil painting brought to life. Set in the mid-1700s during the French Revolution, THE LADY AND THE DUKE tracks the profound friendship between Grace Elliot (Lucy Russell), an English woman who lives in Paris and insists on staying there throughout the war, and The Duke of Orleans (Jean-Claude Dreyfus), the cousin of Louis XVI and Grace's former lover. Russell (FOLLOWING) gives a superb performance as the headstrong, political, beautiful, and daring Grace Elliot, whose real-life memoirs inspired Rohmer to make the film. Dreyfus (DELICATESSEN) plays her perfect counterpart--powerful and unwavering, yet charming, caring, and honest. As each scene of the film magically bleeds into the next, the painterly backdrops make it difficult to discern 3-D objects such as chairs from the trompe l'oiel flat painted sets. Characters enter or exit with shocking life as the camera matches them to the color and texture of the painting. Majestic black horses that pull carriages over the "cobblestone" streets shimmer with velveteen realness. Meanwhile, tension brought on by the war adds strain to the friendship between the lady and the duke, and as the audience endures the fall of the Bastille, the September Massacres, and the finally, the king's execution, they are captivated, entertained, and historically nourished.

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  • Sales Rank: 125,809
  • UPC: 043396075979
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