Even though the film adopts a quite Anglo-British reading on the character, it's fine. The movie juxtaposes the duellists' confrontations with the ongoing Napoleonic campaigns. Each duel is set up at noteworthy places and you get to feel those wars from the inside so to speak. That is ...
The Duellists: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox. France, 1801. Due to a minor perceived slight, mild-mannered Lieutenant d'Hubert is forced into a duel with hot-headed irrational Lieutenant Feraud.
In her review of Ridley Scott’s first film, the 1977 “The Duellists,” critic Pauline Kael seemed almost perplexed by how much she enjoyed a movie of so little consequence. The story, about rival French officers during the Napoleonic Wars, wasn’t very involving. The performances of stars ...
The Last Duel: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, Harriet Walter. The Knight Jean de Carrouges must settle the dispute over his wife Marguerite by challenging his former friend to a duel to the death.
Movie adaptations of major literature have, at best, been a checkered affair. Most directors, no matter how talented, usually stumble when trying to scrunch a great writer’s vision into the limitations of film. Ridley Scott’s “The Duellists” is one of those ambitious but flawed adventures...
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Scott had made just one feature, “The Duellists,” but he had a gift for atmosphere and shared O’Bannon’s belief in Swiss artist H.R. Giger’s nightmarish designs. And thus, the single scariest creature in film history was born, as if dredged from our unconscious, still dripping in ...
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The Counselor: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Michael Fassbender, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Javier Bardem. A lawyer finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking.
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