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L'Anglaise Et Le Duc (France)
The Lady And The Duke
Declining aristocrat
Director: Eric Rohmer
Cast: Lucy Russell Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Footage: 123min
Year: 2001
From the autobiography of Scotland's Lady Grace Elliott, comes the story of a beautiful English woman who lived in Paris during the French Revolution. King Louis XVI is on his way to being beheaded. The much older Duke of Orleans is her ex-lover and a leading Revolutionary, an activist whose unexpected decision to vote for his cousin/king's death causes a stormy, though not permanent, breach between the two.
The film's exteriors were shot on blue-screen backgrounds with 18th-century paintings superimposed during the editing process. The actors seem to be walking out of paintings.
References:
'Lady and the Duke' shows Rohmer in masterful form
The Lady and the Duke (Jeremiah Kipp)
THE LADY AND THE DUKE (L'Anglaise et le duc)
The Lady and the Duke (ROGER EBERT)
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