Using ground-breaking digital technology director Eric Rohmer inserts his actors into painted backdrops to relay the story of the French Revolution as told by Grace Elliot a Scottish aristocrat and the Duc d'Orleans's former mistress...
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Eric Rohmer's tale of revolutionary terror in 1790s France, filmed using digital backdrops based on maps and pictures from the period. Former lovers Grace Elliott (Lucy Russell) and Philippe, Duke of Orleans (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) have remained friends despite their passionate disagreement over political issues - she being a staunch royalist, and he a supporter of the revolutionary cause. After the arrest of Louis XVI, Grace asks Philippe for his help in rescuing the fugitive governer of the Tuileries, and he agrees to do what he can. Despite this however, the Duke remains committed to the revolution, and when he is asked to vote on the matter of the King's execution, he lets his conscience lead the way.
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 Set in the mid-1700s during the French Revolution THE LADY AND THE DUKE tracks the profound friendship between Grace Elliot (Lucy Russell) an English woman who lives in Paris and insists on staying there throughout the war and the Duke of Orleans (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) the cousin of Louis XVI and Grace's former lover Russell (FOLLOWING) gives a superb performance as the headstrong political beautiful and daring Grace Elliot whose real-life memoirs inspired Rohmer to make the film Dreyfus (DELICATESSEN) plays her perfect counterpart--powerful and unwavering yet charming caring and honest As each scene of the film magically bleeds into the next the painterly backdrops make it difficult to discern 3-D objects such as chairs from the trompe l'oiel flat painted sets Characters enter or exit with shocking life as the camera matches them to the color and texture of the painting Majestic black horses that pull carriages over the cobblestone streets shimmer with velveteen realness Meanwhile tension brought on by the war adds strain to the friendship between the lady and the duke and as the audience endures the fall of the Bastille the September Massacres and the finally the king's execution they are captivated entertained and historically nourished
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