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  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 2 h 17 m
  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 2 h 17 m

Summary Antoinette 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 Antoinett...

Directed By: Jacques Rivette

Written By: Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent, Honoré de Balzac, Jacques Rivette

  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 2 h 17 m
  • 2008
  • Unrated
  • IFC Films
  • 2 h 17 m

The Duchess of Langeais

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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Summary Antoinette 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 Antoinett...

Directed By: Jacques Rivette

Written By: Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent, Honoré de Balzac, Jacques Rivette

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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9% Mixed
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4% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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87% Positive
20 Reviews
9% Mixed
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4% Negative
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100
The movie's satisfactions are subtle, but they run deep, and there are many.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
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.
By Steven Rea FULL REVIEW
83
A highbrow chick flick that made me feel older, in a good way.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
70
Masterfully charted and adeptly played, but also rather minimalist.
By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW
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.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW
63
A typically hypnotic, slow-coiling drama from 80-year-old French filmmaker, Jacques Rivette.
By Stephen Cole FULL REVIEW
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.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW

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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
Rating Unrated
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Website https://filmsdulosange.com/en/film/dont-touch-the-axe/
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Awards

Berlin International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Indiewire Critics' Poll
• 1 Nomination
Gaudí Awards
• 1 Nomination

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