Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN), May 8th, 2008
Byline: Colin Covert; Staff Writer THE DUCHESS OF LANGEAIS 2 1/2 out of four stars Theater: Lagoon. A stately costume drama of wrenching passions expressed in courtly phrases. Brooding French general (Guillaume Depardieu, son of Gerard) obtains an audience with a nun called Sister Theresa (Jeanne Balibar). Then the film retreats five years to replay the soldier's emotional siege of the beauty -- who was then the titular Duchess -- and her wily, coquettish resistance. Their elaborate strategies and mind games become a battle of wills as...
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