The Duchess
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December 27, 2008
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- Synopsis
- Director Saul Dibb takes the helm for this period drama adapted from Amanda Foreman's best-selling novel Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, documenting the romantic entanglements of a beautiful celebrity (Keira Knightley) whose unhappy marriage to the ......
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- Director(s)
- Saul Dibb
- Distributor(s)
- Paramount Vantage
- MPAA Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 105 min.
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Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
This is not one of those delightful movies based on a Jane Austen novel. It is about hard realists, constrained in a stifling system and using whatever weapons they can command.Read the full review
The Onion (A.V. Club) | Noel MurrayAdd Critic to Favorites
Thoroughly populist and middlebrow, full of all the high wigs, thick powder, perfect diction, and straightforward dialogue that define bodice-ripping prestige pictures about silently suffering souls.Read the full review
Los Angeles Times | Kenneth TuranAdd Critic to Favorites
Even surrounded by all this quality work, Ralph Fiennes, who plays William Cavendish, the fifth duke of Devonshire, the most powerful man in England next to the king, walks off with the picture.Read the full review
