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The Lady and the Duke

2001 · 2h 9m · PG-13 Drama, History, Romance, War
Directed by Éric Rohmer

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Grace Dalrymple Elliot is a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French Revolution. Determined to maintain her stiff upper lip and pampered life despite the upheaval, Grace continues her friendship with the Duke of Orléans while risking her life and liberty to protect a fugitive.

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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.

Susan Stark, Detroit News
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Seldom has the elegant past of 18th century royal life married modern filmmaking with the grace and sophistication of Eric Rohmer's L'anglaise et le duc.

Marta Barber, Miami Herald
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Nothing short of a technical marvel and a ravishing movie to look at.

Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
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Working from Elliott's memoir, Rohmer fashions the sort of delicate, articulate character- and- relationship study he's favored for decades.

Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, L.A. Weekly
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Whenever the subtleties of political morality get a bit overbearing, there's a respite in the painterly streets of Paris, where, we are reminded, the past was another city, strange and resistant to present-day adornments.

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

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