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  1. Production design (Michael Carlin), art direction (Karen Wakefield), set decoration (Rebecca Alleway) and cinematography (Gyula Pados) are superb and Oscar-nomination worthy. The techs are what make "The Duchess" a most watchable film. Unfortunately. the screenplay is where it falls weak. This is definitely aimed at the mature femme audience.

  2. www.pluggedin.com › movie-reviews › duchessThe Duchess - Plugged In

    On June 6, 1774, one day shy of her 18th birthday, Georgiana Spencer married William Cavendish, the 5th Duke of Devonshire. Based on Amanda Foreman’s biography, The Duchess recounts Georgiana’s story, a dramatic but tragic tale of one woman’s public adulation and searing private pain. A flicker of promise gets things going as Georgiana ...

    • Saul Dibb
  3. yggdrasille.com › 2020/07/07 › the-duchess-film-reviewThe Duchess – Film Review

    Jul 7, 2020 · A handsome if somewhat slight period drama based on the life of Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire and the great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales. A young vibrant beauty lands what looks like a dazzling match, and becomes a celebrated and loved figure as well as a fashion icon, while trapped in a…

  4. The Duchess Review. 18th century England. Soon after marrying the Duke of Devonshire (Fiennes), 19 year-old Georgiana (Knightley) finds herself the darling of London society. Behind the glamour ...

  5. Feb 20, 2019 · *** Read my interview with The Duchess’s Oscar-winning costume designer Michael O’Connor *** Freedom is an absolute, the just-married Georgiana tells Whig politician Charles Fox in the 1770s, when it turns out that his progressive ideas to share power and wealth more equally among Britain’s citizens only really work for him if some are more equal than others.

    • 2008
    • Saul Dibb
    • Drama | Historical | True Story
  6. To underline that The Duchess is a story with modern resonance, the director, Saul Dibb, kept most of its scenes fluid, with characters and cameras constantly on the move. ‘But the scenes with just the duke and Georgiana were deliberately static,’ he said. ‘I wanted to emphasise the rigidity of their relationship.’.

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  8. Sep 19, 2008 · Long before the concept existed, the Duchess of Devonshire, Georgiana Spencer, was the original “It Girl.” Like her direct ancestor Princess Diana, she was ravishing, glamorous and adored by an entire country. Determined to be a player in the wider affairs of the world, she proved that she could out-gamble, out-drink and outwit most of the aristocratic men who surrounded her. She helped ...

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