Antoinette de Langeais
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The Duchess of Langeais is a 2007 French-Italian period drama film directed by Jacques Rivette. Its original French title is Ne touchez pas la hache ("Don't touch the axe"). It is based on the 1834 novel of the same name by Honoré de Balzac.
Mar 28, 2007 · The Duchess of Langeais: Directed by Jacques Rivette. With Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu, Bulle Ogier, Michel Piccoli. In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her.
Feb 21, 2008 · In 1820s Paris married socialite Madame de Langeais (Jeanne Balibar) captures the attention of a soldier (Guillaume Depardieu) who vows to make her his lover...
Jun 19, 2008 · A prisoner of love in a chamber of secrets. Roger Ebert June 19, 2008. Tweet. Armand (Guillame Depardieu) confronts the coquettish Antoinette (Jeanne Balibar). Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The lovers in "The Duchess of Langeais" never consummate their love, but it consummates them.
Nov 22, 2016 · THE DUCHESSE OF LANGEAIS. In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigor of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman.
Plot. General Armand de Montriveau, a war hero, is enamored of Duchess Antoinette de Langeais, a coquettish, married noblewoman who invites him to a ball but ultimately refuses his sexual advances and then disappears.
General Montriveau, having returned from the Napoleonic Wars in despair, quickly becomes enamored with Duchess Langeais. Across a series of nocturnal visitations, the Duchess mercilessly toys with her hot-tempered suitor, as the machinations of a shadowy conspiracy unfold in the background.
