The Duchess
September 2008
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Ben Mankiewicz
This is a wonderful film.
Ben Lyons
There's something really special about Kiera Knightly in these period pieces.
Claudia Puig
It chronicles the saga of a vibrant and forward-thinking woman hampered by the constraints of a rigid society.
Tasha Robinson
It's disturbingly shallow, focused so tightly on one woman's feelings of repression and loneliness that it lacks any perspective on their causes.
Bill Goodykoontz
The Duchess is clearly Knightley's movie, ultimately rising or falling on her performance. She's up to the task, capturing both the charm and grace that made Georgiana so captivating.
Moira MacDonald
Fiennes, an actor who disappears into roles like ice in a teacup, makes the Duke a complex and almost sympathetic figure, a bulky, unappealing man whose interests are in all the wrong things.
Critic reviews
Claudia Puig
It chronicles the saga of a vibrant and forward-thinking woman hampered by the constraints of a rigid society.
Tasha Robinson
It's disturbingly shallow, focused so tightly on one woman's feelings of repression and loneliness that it lacks any perspective on their causes.
Bill Goodykoontz
The Duchess is clearly Knightley's movie, ultimately rising or falling on her performance. She's up to the task, capturing both the charm and grace that made Georgiana so captivating.
Moira MacDonald
Fiennes, an actor who disappears into roles like ice in a teacup, makes the Duke a complex and almost sympathetic figure, a bulky, unappealing man whose interests are in all the wrong things.
sad... it was a very good movie from my point of view...but was very.sad how she lived...
Cast and credits
Actors | Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Hayley Atwell, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Rampling |
Producers | Michael Kuhn, Gabrielle Tana, Carolyn Marks-Blackwood |
Director | Saul Dibb |
Writers | Amanda Foreman, Jeffrey Hatcher, Anders Thomas Jensen, Saul Dibb |
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Start within 30 days, finish within 48 hours.
Run time
109 minutes
Rating
PG-13
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