SummaryAntoinette is the Duchess of Langeais, a married coquette who frequents the most extravagant balls in 1820s Paris during the Restoration, when hypocrisy and vanity reign. From the moment of the handsome general Armand de Montriveau's first meeting with her, he realized it was true love. Flattered by his attentions, the alluring Antoinette orchest... Read More
Directed By:Jacques Rivette
Written By:Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent, Honoré de Balzac, Jacques Rivette
The Duchess of Langeais
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
87% Positive
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100
The movie's satisfactions are subtle, but they run deep, and there are many.
88
Rivette's slow-moving but seamless study of the rituals of courtship has a disarming grace, even as its downcast hero, Depardieu's Gen. Armand de Montriveau, limps around stiffly.
83
A highbrow chick flick that made me feel older, in a good way.
70
Masterfully charted and adeptly played, but also rather minimalist.
70
Rivette has aged into one of cinema’s most ingenious minimalists. In The Duchess of Langeais he uses intertitles--bits of literary exposition--with cheeky understatement.
63
A typically hypnotic, slow-coiling drama from 80-year-old French filmmaker, Jacques Rivette.
38
Jacques Rivette's film is full of painstaking historical detail, but the behavior of the two nonlovers is mired in inaction and emotionally incomprehensible.
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Production Company:
- Pierre Grise Productions
- Cinemaundici
- Arte France Cinéma
- Canal+
- CinéCinéma
- Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)
- Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC)
- MEDIA Programme of the European Union
- Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep)
- La Région Île-de-France
Release Date:Feb 22, 2008
Duration:2 h 17 m
Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Indiewire Critics' Poll
• 1 Nomination
Gaudí Awards
• 1 Nomination
