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DUCHESS OF LANGEAIS (THE)

NE TOUCHEZ PAS LA HACHE

By Jacques RIVETTE

CELLULOID DREAMS - as SALES All rights, World

Historical - Completed 2007

- Year of production
- 2007
- Genres
- Historical, Drama
- Countries
- FRANCE, ITALY
- Languages
- FRENCH, SPANISH
- Duration
- 137 mn
- Director(s)
- Jacques RIVETTE
- Cast
- Jeanne BALIBAR, Guillaume DEPARDIEU, Michel PICCOLI
- Synopsis
- In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently returned from Africa, she married and part of the highest society. She flirts with him, and soon he's captivated. His behavior is possessive, insistent. Then, it is her turn to become obsessed. Letters, balls, scandal, a kidnapping, and an ultimatum bring her to the cloister and him to melancholy. Whose steel proved sharper? Is it tragic or grotesque?