Film Society: Join us for a screening of The Lady and the Duke!
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Join us for a 25th anniversary screening of The Lady and the Duke, a mesmerizing fusion of historical drama and early digital experimentation from legendary French New Wave filmmaker Éric Rohmer (My Night at Maud’s). Presented on 35mm, this rarely seen modern classic kicks off Museum Films’ curated festival of contemporary French cinema, screening July 10-12.
EVENT SCHEDULE
6:30 pm | Reception in the Museum Store
7 pm | Screening of The Lady and the Duke in the Noble Theater followed by post-screening discussion led by President and CEO Michael Anderson, PhD and Director of Film Programming Lisa K. Broad, PhD
ABOUT THE FILM
The Lady and the Duke
“Rohmer entered the aughts, as well as his eighties, with this hyper-stylized costume drama, the director’s first literary adaptation since his astonishing, misfit masterpiece Perceval 23 years earlier. Based on the memoirs of Scottish courtesan and spy Grace Elliot, who aided monarchists in France during the Reign of Terror, it casts Lucy Russell (Toni Erdmann) opposite Jean-Claude Dreyfus (Delicatessen) as the titular aristocrats and former lovers—she a royalist sympathizer, he a throne-renouncing revolutionary. Rohmer, ahead of the curve, shot the film on burgeoning digital video and used blue-screen exteriors to superimpose his costumed players onto an uncanny, 18th-century Paris fabricated through CGI and matte painting. The result, elegant and unusual, adds a ravishing visual palette to this talkative tale of political intrigue and right-leaning historical revisionism.” -The Cinematheque
