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...Duchess” is a period film about a beautiful, young, aristocratic female trapped in an unhappy situation. This time, it’s a marriage with three people: Georgiana, her husband, and her husband’s live-in mistress. The Duchess Georgiana, played by Keira Knightley, consoles herself by taking a dashing young lover, flaunting the newest fashions, and schmaltzing her way to the top of London society. The real-life Georgiana Cavendish was a relative of Princess Diana, a fact the filmmakers make sure to exploit. However, linking the story to Diana of Wales will not make...
Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley) was a mere 17 years old when the Duke of Devonshire (Ralph Fiennes) began courting her - not that the ways of courtliness were among His Grace's skill sets. It is hard to imagine, in fact, what commonly recognizable human traits - aside from a passion for his dogs - this dour, emotionally constipated 18th-century man possessed. Essentially, he was doing a deal with Georgiana's mother (Charlotte Rampling), who has assured her that the Spencer women are historically adept at producing male heirs. And the Duke, whose other negative attributes included stupidity, believed...
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley), was an 18th century scandal magnet for having both a swine and a swain--an icy, cheating husband (Ralph Fiennes) and a Whig politician lover (Dominic Cooper). This middling drama is less a history lesson than a tour of sumptuous real estate. The loveliest acreage is Knightley's alabaster back...
...There were some undeniably big names in the audience - Daniel Day-Lewis, Keira Knightley, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Hudson, Ridley Scott, Ian McKellen - just not enough of them. After the first three rows, the faces became unfamiliar. Many of the high-profile nominees - George, Cate, Tommy Lee - were no-shows, and it quickly became clear that many famous attendees were there either to present an award or pick one up. Everybody had a job to do; nobody had just come for the party...
...MacEwan’s romance. But could it possibly satisfy the novel’s existing readers? The film version is directed by Joe Wright, best known for his recent adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice,” which, like this flick, also starred Keira Knightley. As a fan of neither Keira’s wolfish style of beauty nor her interpretation of Elizabeth Bennet, I was originally reluctant to see the Wright-Knightley duo assault another one of my favorite books. Many would claim that, with “Pride and Prejudice,” Wright...