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Don’t Touch The Axe
Ne Touchez Pas La Hache
Jacques Rivette
France | 2006 | 137mins | 35mm | Colour | Subtitled
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Guillaume Depardieu, Jeanne Balibar, and Michel Piccoli all star in legendary French director Jacques Rivette’s adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais.
Lavishly produced with luxurious costumes and sets, we are brought straight into the inner circles of the upper classes of Restoration-era Paris; when society was dominated by hypocrisy, vanity and money. The film follows the ups and downs of a doomed love story, full of passion and revenge, of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero.
Antoinette becomes enamored with a wounded soldier whose rousing tales of adventure offer an exciting contrast to her highly refined, yet boring, lifestyle. He falls in love with her immediately and becomes infatuated with her. But Antoinette is married, and does not wish to betray her husband and lose her standing in Parisian society. However the pair find it increasingly difficult to deny the powerful chemistry that binds them.
Elegance, austerity, high seriousness, barbed wit... anyone susceptible to literary costume drama at its most intellectually substantial will be bowled over. - Screen Daily
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