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Oct 12, 2021 · All the while watching Le Gris rise higher and higher in the court and swallowing his pride when Le Gris is awarded land and titles he believed rightfully his. They fall in and out with each other. But they fall definitively out when Marguerite, Jean’s wife (Jodie Comer), accuses Le Gris of rape.
Set in medieval France, the film stars Damon as Jean de Carrouges, a knight who challenges his former friend, squire Jacques le Gris (Adam Driver), to a judicial duel after Jean's wife, Marguerite (Jodie Comer), accuses Jacques of raping her.
Oct 15, 2021 · The Last Duel is, in essence, a movie about a long tradition: not believing women when they say they’ve been raped or sexually assaulted. But the path the movie takes to remind us of this...
- Medieval Men
- Marguerite de Thibouville
- Medieval Justice
- Pregnancy, Sex, and Pleasure
The Last Duel really shines in its representations of the way medieval ideas about masculinity encouraged and enabled men to do terrible things to one another and to those in their power. The drives to improve or maintain social status, to be regarded as courageous and honorable, to have a wife of spotless reputation, to be the father of as many ch...
We know that the historical Marguerite de Thibouville was the heiress of a venerable noble family of Normandy, was probably young when she became Carrouges’ second wife, and was, after the fact, enriched by her husband’s fame and fortune in his role as celebrated hero of the “last duel.” She had at least three children with Carrouges, before he die...
Trials by combat had a role in medieval French justice but were rare, frequently condemned, and regularly declared illegal. Even when men, and some women, obtained judicial permission to engage in trial by combat, they or their designated champions only rarely actually followed through, finding ways instead to reconcile or to put an end to the proc...
The film invents an infertility problem for Marguerite as a major plot point, presumably in a well-meant effort to explore what sex and pregnancy might have been like for her and to engage with medieval ideas about reproduction. But the way The Last Duelhandles these matters is odd. Medieval medical theory did state that women had to feel pleasure ...
Parents need to know that The Last Duel is a blood-soaked medieval sword fight drama directed by Ridley Scott, starring Jodie Comer, Matt Damon, Adam Driver, and Ben Affleck. It's ambitious in its attempts to address toxic masculinity and female power, but its length and structure make it frequently clunky….
- Ridley Scott
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- 20th Century Fox
Oct 14, 2021 · Toward the end of Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel,” an epic evisceration of bad men and worse hair, a court official argues that a woman must experience sexual pleasure in order to conceive a...
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Oct 13, 2021 · The Last Duel Rated R for sexual violence and the usual medieval barbarism. Running time: 2 hours 32 minutes. In theaters.
