I was struck with the sets, for it seems that in capturing the architecture and landscape of the times, every scene appears to be on a stage set because the scene painters must have had work for months recreating backgrounds and backdrops. That was artistically interesting but something about it also made me feel I was watching a play that was filmed rather than a film based in historical reality... Many critics (Toronto Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and New York Film Festival) would disagree with me...
I also tried to follow it in French but was unable to!
From the back of the DVD: "THE LADY AND THE DUKE" is a suspenseful, visually opulent story based on a true story about an unusual friendship during a dangerous time. From highly acclaimed director Eric Rohmer... Beautiful aristocrat Grace Elliot enjoys her comfortable upper-middle class life and warm friendship with her former lover, the Duke of Orleans, until the turbulent French Revolution of the 1790's frighteningly begins. Their friendship unravels as Grace risks her life taking in a fugitive against the Duke's wishes..."
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