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L'anglaise et le duc

The Lady And The Duke

Date de Sortie: vendredi 26 juillet 2002
Genre: Drame

Réalisateur: Eric Rohmer
Producteur: Françoise Etchegaray
Scénario: Eric Rohmer
Studio: Mongrel Media
Durée: 125 min.

Résumé:

Grace Elliott (Russell) was a British beauty who was first mistress to the Prince of Wales (who later became England's King George IV) and then to the Duke of Orleans, who brought her to France to live in 1786.

By the time the Revolution begins, Grace and the Duke's ardour has cooled, yet there's no mistaking their passionate friendship. Each lights up with joy at the other's sight. However, the two are at odds politically. She's a royalist, faithful to King Louis XVI -- while he, although a cousin to the King, is not.

Politics aside, Grace manages to cajole the Duke into helping an injured aristocrat escape, but fails to keep him from voting for the King's execution.