The Duchess of Langeais (Ne Touchez Pas La Hache)(Don't...
Anne Cantineau, Beppe Chierici, Bulle Ogier
Antoinette is the Duchess of Langeais, a married coquette who frequents the most extravagant balls in 1820's Paris during The Restoration, where hypocrisy and vanity reign. Upon the handsome general, ...( read more
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July 27, 2008Very playful but also quite stuffy and theatrical. I guess Rivette was trying to show how society's romantic rituals are nothing more than theatrics but I don't care for any of its characters. It's like what the Last Mistress would have been if it was focused on the battle of wil... ...( read more )
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February 10, 2009Guillaume Depardieu Like Father like Son, we use to say.
Ne Touchez Pas La Hache : Don`t touch the Axe.
I LOVE FRENCH! I would love to translate the Quotes, though they dont sound tasty like in French.
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January 23, 2009Ugh, this is so Balzac. If I had been in a better disposition when I saw the movie, perhaps I would've liked it more. But this way I got bored.
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October 18, 2008
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
June 20, 2008
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The everyday moviegoer will find it as impenetrable as its heroine. But if you vibrate to nuances of style, if you enjoy tension gathering strength beneath terrible restraint, if you admire great acti... full review
May 9, 2008
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
The Duchess of Langeais is a stately costume drama of wrenching passions expressed in courtly phrases. full review
March 28, 2008
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Based on a Balzac story, Rivette's Duchess manages to be both old-fashioned in its settings and circumstances, and coolly modern in its view of thwarted passion and despair. full review
March 21, 2008
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
The movie's satisfactions are subtle, but they run deep, and there are many. full review
February 20, 2008
Armond White, The New York Press
Duchess of Langeais -- compared to an exhilarating neo-New Wave movie like The Witnesses -- is always dull. full review
February 19, 2008
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
With the simplest of means, the director Jacques Rivette has cut a path to the heart of Balzac's The Duchess of Langeais. full review
February 15, 2008
Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
Well acted and aesthetically attractive, the film remains by and large inert. full review
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