There were three people in her marriage
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
| Cast |
Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell, Simon McBurney, Aidan McArdle |
| Director |
Saul Dibb |
| Screenplay | Jeffrey Hatcher, Anders Thomas Jensen, Saul Dibb, from the book by Amanda Foreman |
| Music | Rachel Portman |
| Cinematography | Gyula Pados |
| Editing | Masahiro Hirakubo |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Made in | 2008 |
| Produced by | Paramount Vantage, Pathé BBC Films, Qwerty Films, Magnolia Mae Films |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
| Genre | Historical, drama |
| Language | None |
| Nudity | Infrequent, mild |
| Sex | Fairly frequent, strongly implied |
| Violence | One disturbing rape scene |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | Themes in this movie are mature and complex and are likely to disturb younger viewers, and create a sense of insecurity in them. |
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Alcohol / Drugs |
| Smoking |
Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
| Music (Scary/Tense) |
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Topics to talk about |
| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Diane de Beer | 15 |  |
| Die Burger Mariana Malan | 15 | |
| Cape Times Kenneth Turan | 15 | |
| iAfrica.com Rebekah Kendal | 15 | |
| The Citizen Annette Bayne  With the length of the plot, blandness creeps in, leaving you with feeling that you have spent too long in the cinema. | 14 | |
| 24.com Jean Barker This ground-breaking, tear-jerking period drama acknowledges female frailty, and the bravest things about femininity — without covering it all in flowers. | 15 | |
| Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert The Duchess is a handsome historical film, impeccably mounted, gowned, wigged and feathered, where a husband and wife spend hours being dressed in order to appear at dinner to argue about whether the mutton is off. | 18 | |
| eye Weekly Adam Nayman tage director Saul Dibb shoots the lavish interiors in an agreeably clean, uncluttered manner but the script is a mess, all bizarre ellipses, dull expository monologues and telegraphed narrative revelations, one of which actually comes accompanied by the rumble of thunder. | 5 |  |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli Anyone largely unfamiliar with British period pieces will be duly impressed, but there are few moments during the course of The Duchess when I didn't feel as if I was watching a re-run. That might be okay for TV viewing, but it's less-than-desirable in a movie theater. | 10 |  |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers It's Knightley who makes The Duchess a royal treat. | 15 | |
| ScreenIt C. Fuchs It's not that it's bad by any means, but the material, both in terms of the direction and script, never manages to impress let alone wow the viewer along the lines of the various elements that constitute the overall piece, and it's a bit slow if clearly competently and confidently handled. | 12 |  |
| Metacritic.com 34 critics | 12 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 151 critics | 12 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer While The Duchess treads the now-familiar terrain of the corset-ripper, the costumes look great and Keira Knightley's performance is stellar in this subtly feminist, period drama. | 12 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 6596 Netizens Compelling and Layered Costume Drama | 14 | |
Average .. 66% | 13 | |