The Duchess (2008)
Country: GB/FR/IT/US
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 110m
Director: Saul Dibb
Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell
Synopsis:
England, the 1770s: the wife of the Duke of Devonshire struggles through an unhappy match, suffers the indignity of sharing a home with her husband's mistress and is punished for her own indiscretion with a future Prime Minister of the Whig party.
Review:
Impeccably produced and superbly acted (by Fiennes especially), this slice of heritage cinema offers little that is new to the genre but has the dubious distinction of providing salacious parallels with the experience of Lady Diana Spencer, whose ancestor the duchess was.
Country: GB/FR/IT/US
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 110m
Director: Saul Dibb
Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell
Synopsis:
England, the 1770s: the wife of the Duke of Devonshire struggles through an unhappy match, suffers the indignity of sharing a home with her husband's mistress and is punished for her own indiscretion with a future Prime Minister of the Whig party.
Review:
Impeccably produced and superbly acted (by Fiennes especially), this slice of heritage cinema offers little that is new to the genre but has the dubious distinction of providing salacious parallels with the experience of Lady Diana Spencer, whose ancestor the duchess was.
Country: GB/FR/IT/US
Technical: DeLuxe/2.35:1 110m
Director: Saul Dibb
Cast: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell
Synopsis:
England, the 1770s: the wife of the Duke of Devonshire struggles through an unhappy match, suffers the indignity of sharing a home with her husband's mistress and is punished for her own indiscretion with a future Prime Minister of the Whig party.
Review:
Impeccably produced and superbly acted (by Fiennes especially), this slice of heritage cinema offers little that is new to the genre but has the dubious distinction of providing salacious parallels with the experience of Lady Diana Spencer, whose ancestor the duchess was.