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NUMBERS
Box Office: $124,812
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CONSENSUS
Visually stunning, The Lady and the Duke uses current technology to elegantly bring the past to life.
CAST & CREW
Lucy Russell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Francois Marthouret
Directed by Eric Rohmer
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SYNOPSIS
This visually breathtaking film from New Wave director Eric Rohmer uses hand-painted sets that depict 18th-century Paris, the English lady's home, and the surrounding countryside with a vivid effect that looks like a realist oil painting brought to life. more...
MPAA RATING
PG-13, some violent images
RUNTIME
2 hours, 5 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: May 10, 2002
Video: Oct 1, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Sony Pictures Classics
GENRE
Dramas, Romance, War, History
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official The Lady and the Duke Site
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 "The word that comes to mind, while watching Eric Rohmer's tribute to a courageous Scottish lady, is painterly."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
 "Normally, Rohmer's talky films fascinate me, but when he moves his setting to the past, and relies on a historical text, he loses the richness of characterization that makes his films so memorable."
-- Jeff Vorndam, ABOUTFILM.COM
"To the vast majority of more casual filmgoers, it will probably be a talky bore."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Some stunning visuals -- and some staggeringly boring cinema."
-- Jonathan Taylor, CITYSEARCH
"It's ... worth the extra effort to see an artist, still committed to growth in his ninth decade, change while remaining true to his principles with a film whose very subject is, quite pointedly, about the peril of such efforts."
-- Bob Strauss, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Despite the film's shortcomings, it's still a solid effort and a thought-provoking look at idealism gone wrong."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"A plodding look at the French Revolution through the eyes of aristocrats."
-- Eli Sanders, SEATTLE TIMES
"Slow and ponderous, but Rohmer's drama builds to an intense indoor drama about compassion, sacrifice, and Christian love in the face of political corruption."
-- Jeffrey Overstreet, LOOKING CLOSER
"An instance of an old dog not only learning but inventing a remarkable new trick."
-- Shawn Levy, OREGONIAN
"Much of The Lady and the Duke is about quiet, decisive moments between members of the cultural elite as they determine how to proceed as the world implodes."
-- Jeremiah Kipp, FILMCRITIC.COM
"A tragic tale that is well worth retelling."
-- Philip Horne, SIGHT AND SOUND
"The Lady and the Duke is Eric Rohmer's economical antidote to the bloated costume drama"
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"The Lady and the Duke is a smart, romantic drama that dares to depict the French Revolution from the aristocrats' perspective."
-- Jack Garner, ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE
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"Talky, artificial and opaque...an interesting technical exercise, but a tedious picture."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"At 81 years of age, Rohmer still has what it takes to make great movies."
-- Shlomo Schwartzberg, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"A bold (and lovely) experiment that will almost certainly bore most audiences into their own brightly colored dreams."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"... a fascinating curiosity piece -- fascinating, that is, for about ten minutes. After that it becomes long and tedious like a classroom play in a college history course."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"Fascinating melding of celluloid and digital video."
-- Frank Lovece, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"For all its problems ... The Lady and the Duke surprisingly manages never to grow boring... which proves that Rohmer still has a sense of his audience."
-- Andy Klein, NEW TIMES
"Rohmer makes a gracious, if occasionally tedious, effort to dress the French Revolution in digitally rendered scenes that bespeak the period perfectly."
-- Laura Kelly, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"It finds its moviegoing pleasures in the tiny events that could make a person who has lived her life half-asleep suddenly wake up and take notice."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"Aside from Rohmer's bold choices regarding point of view, The Lady and the Duke represents the filmmaker's lifelong concern with formalist experimentation in cinematic art."
-- Yazmin Ghonaim, CINEPHILES
"The laser-projected paintings provide a spell-casting beauty, while Russell and Dreyfus are a romantic pairing of hearts, preciously exposed as history corners them."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
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"When the painted backdrops in a movie are more alive than its characters, you know you're in trouble."
-- Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM
"I loved the look of this film."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Watching living actors interact against the lush, studied inertia of the backdrops gives us the impression of history come to life, or statues magically transformed into living creatures."
-- Chris Vognar, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"This fascinating experiment plays as more of a poetic than a strict reality, creating an intriguing species of artifice that gives The Lady and the Duke something of a theatrical air."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"A striking tale of intrigue set during the French Revolution."
-- Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
"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
"Despite its lavish formalism and intellectual austerity, the film manages to keep you at the edge of your seat with its shape-shifting perils, political intrigue and brushes with calamity."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"If cinema had been around to capture the chaos of France in the 1790's, one imagines the result would look like something like this."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"The technique is impressive."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"At once disarmingly straightforward and strikingly devious."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
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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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