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Release Date: May 10, 2002
Running Time: 129 mins.
Additional Notes: dialogue French
Country Of Origin: France
starring: Lucy Russell, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Francois Marthouret, Leonard Cobiant, Caroline Morin, Alain Libolt, Helena Dubeil, Laurent Le Doyen, Georges Benoit, Serge Wolfsperger
director: Eric Rohmer
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The true story of Grace Elliott, a beautiful royalist Englishwoman living perilously in France during the Revolution, and her sometimes affectionate, sometimes tempestuous relationship with Philippe, Duke of Orleans, a cousin of King Louis XVI but nonetheless a supporter of revolutionary ideas. The Lady manages to persuade the Duke to rescue an outlaw, but fails to keep him from voting for the King's execution.
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A beautiful Scottish noblewoman living in Paris finds herself caught up in the violence, terror and political intrigue of the French Revolution and its bloody aftermath. Story It's the early 1790s, and the Reign of Terror follows the French Revolution and the fall of the Bastille. France attempts to stabilize and form a new government of the people, but many of the people are rowdy and murderous. Grace Elliott, an elegant Scottish divorcee lives luxuriously in Paris, but around her swirls the… 
May 8, 2002
The Lady and the Duke, a striking tale of intrigue set during the French Revolution, stars Lucy Russell as a Scottish aristocrat who uses her wiles on Philippe, Duke of Orleans (Jean-Claude Dreyfus), to further her own political and sexual agenda. Old master Eric Rohmer, 82, uses new tricks in the form of painted backdrops inserted digitally to create a virtual reality. Rohmer goes Lucas - who could have guessed? PETER TRAVERS
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