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Ne touches pas la hache (Don't touch the axe), dir. Jacques Rivette, France/Italy 2007, French with English subtitles, 137 min.
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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.
An incisive exploration of the social mores of courtship and the maddening nature of desire, Jacques Rivette's adaptation of Honore de Balzac's novella La Duchesse de Langeais is a biting chamber drama of selfish passions and competing agendas.
Screening on 35mm.
An incisive exploration of the social mores of courtship and the maddening nature of desire, Jacques Rivette's adaptation of Honore de Balzac's novella La Duchesse de Langeais is a biting chamber drama of selfish passions and competing agendas.
Screening on 35mm.
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04:00 pm
Sat, 31 May 2025
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