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The Duchess of Langeais is a 2007 French-Italian period drama film directed by Jacques Rivette. Its original French title is Ne touchez pas la hache ("Don't touch the axe"). It is based on the 1834 novel of the same name by Honoré de Balzac. The film stars Jeanne Balibar and Guillaume Depardieu as lovers in the 1820s, [2] who are involved in a ...
Mar 28, 2007 · The Duchess of Langeais: Directed by Jacques Rivette. With Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, Michel Piccoli. In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her.
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- Drama, Music, Romance
- Jacques Rivette
- 2007-03-28
La Duchesse de Langeais is an 1834 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine. It is part of his 1839 trilogy Histoire des treize : Ferragus is the first part, Part Two is La Duchesse de Langeais and Part Three is The Girl with the ...
- HonorÃe de Balzac
- 1834
The lovers in "The Duchess of Langeais" never consummate their love, but it consummates them. The film is about two elegant aristocrats whose stubborn compulsions eat them alive. They're bull-headed to the point of madness. Their story is told with a fair amount of passion, but it's interior passion, bottled up, carrying them to a point far beyond what either one expects or desires.
The Duchess of Langeais. Released Feb 22, 2008 2h 17m History Drama Romance. List. 70% Tomatometer 66 Reviews. 52% Audience Score 500+ Ratings. In 1820s Paris married socialite Madame de Langeais ...
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- Jeanne Balibar
- Jacques Rivette
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Feb 21, 2008 · In 1820s Paris married socialite Madame de Langeais (Jeanne Balibar) captures the attention of a soldier (Guillaume Depardieu) who vows to make her his lover...
- 138 min
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- IFC Films
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Feb 22, 2008 · Jacques Rivette’s “Duchess of Langeais” seems to me a nearly impeccable work of art beautiful, true, profound. Based on Balzac’s 1834 short novel and set against the French Restoration ...
