Director: Eric Rohmer Country: France
Year: 2001
Length: 125 '
Cast: Lucy Russell (Grace Elliott), Jean-Claude Dreyfus (Duke of Orleans), François Marthouret, Cobiant Léonard, Caroline Morin, Alain Libolt, Héléna Dubiel, Laurent Le Doyen, Serge Wolfsperger, Daniel Tarrare, Charlotte Véry.
Screenplay: Eric Rohmer. Based on the novel "Ma vie sous la révolution" Grace Elliot.
Producer: Françoise Etchegaray.
Music: Jean-Claude Valero.
Photo: Diane Baratier
Editor: Mary Stephen.
Costumes: Pierre-Jean Laroque. Sceneries
: Antoine Fontaine.
Synopsis
The Lady and the Duke is based on the autobiography of Grace Elliot (Lucy Russell), former lover of the Duke of Orleans (Jean-Claude Dreyfus) in the time of the French Revolution. Suspected of being a British spy, Grace, through its optical monarchy, portrayed the historical evolution of a troubled Paris for the scene of blood and death that followed the outbreak of revolution.
The French Revolution globalized freedom and equality, launched as "discover" a continent and set the pillars of the polymorph and brittle structure that has been (that is) modernity. But from the beginning, he sacrificed the third prong of the revolutionary ideal. The fraternity is not assimilated or been assimilated for now never as political aspirations. Just a few technological steps separate the guillotine of the electric chair.
Eric Rohmer risk their popularity to denounce The Lady and the Duke , which reviews the legendary revolutionary episode from an uncomfortable view: their aristocratic victims. Sale and veteran French director (81 years, more than thirty films) of the brilliant and authentic universe of contemporary Paris appointments with nearly a quarter century after his last re-enactment, Perceval le Gallois (1978). And it does translate to the movies almost verbatim memories of Grace Elliot, Scottish lady who lived in Paris during the bloodiest years of the Jacobin government of Robespierre, convinced royalist lover while the Duke of Orleans, a revolutionary political scheming.
Beyond the controversy that has been able to raise the question Rohmer popular triumphalism with which it has always evoked this landmark of French nationalism (and all subsequent liberal tradition), The Lady and the Duke mostly has an exceptional interest in form. To recreate the Paris of the late eighteenth century, Rohmer has rejected any show of loyalty restoration. Commissioned a painter of landscapes and a series on the fund, which of course recognize the romantic iconography of the period, inserted the actors in a process equivalent to running "empty", as used by the film in years 30 and 40 and much improved now by the possibilities of digital image processing.
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