The Duchess
Georgina is the girl whose story begins in the 18th century. Georgina is the Duchess of Devonshire, living a noisy life filled with a set of traditions, social norms, protocols, fame and money. The girl might pay for it after she entered into a failed marriage. There are many conflicts and confrontations that must be faced. Georgina will meet a special conflict, her life with her husband's mistress and the love of a young political man. Perhaps the Duchess is a girl who may rise to the world of fame, money and power, but all for a great deal of her life.
30 September 1970, Catterick, North Yorkshire, England, UK
1934, Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales, UK
1971, Costa Mesa, California, USA
22 December 1962, Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK
25 August 1957, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
10 October 1924, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
13 February 1933, Finsbury Park, London, England, UK
18 November 1986, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1970, Dublin, Ireland
1981, Westminster, London, England, UK
17 October 1978, Esher, Surrey, England, UK
March 05, 2009
a refreshing look at British royalty, and it will curb your want to be part of that era, age and societal level
November 07, 2008
There's something really special about Kiera Knightly in these period pieces.
September 26, 2008
Fiennes, an actor who disappears into roles like ice in a teacup, makes the Duke a complex and almost sympathetic figure, a bulky, unappealing man whose interests are in all the wrong things.
February 09, 2009
Everything you'd expect it to be: a well-acted British period piece with lavish attention to period detail, about discontented characters in a royal family. And that's about it.
September 29, 2016
Keira wears a series of gorgeous frocks and runs through her full repertoire of smirks and simpers... But if you can look past the dresses and the sullen lips, then you have to admit that [she] delivers another solid performance.
November 07, 2008
This is a wonderful film.
October 18, 2008
It chronicles the saga of a vibrant and forward-thinking woman hampered by the constraints of a rigid society.
October 09, 2009
The Duchess doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is: a comfortable, low-calorie morsel of historical drama.
January 06, 2009
Knightley and Cooper don't ever generate much in the way of chemistry.
October 09, 2008
The Duchess is clearly Knightley's movie, ultimately rising or falling on her performance. She's up to the task, capturing both the charm and grace that made Georgiana so captivating.
January 24, 2009
At its simplest, it's a gorgeous film with beautiful period costumes and intricate set designs. However, something tells me that's not the level director Saul Dibb wanted to achieve greatest on.
October 18, 2008
It's disturbingly shallow, focused so tightly on one woman's feelings of repression and loneliness that it lacks any perspective on their causes.
