Directed by Saul Dibb
Produced by Gabrielle Tana
Carolyn Marks Blackwood
Michael Kuhn
Written by Jeffrey Hatcher
Amanda Foreman (biography)
Starring Keira Knightley
Hayley Atwell
Ralph Fiennes
Editing by Masahiro Hirakubo
Distributed by Paramount Vantage
BBC Films
Pathé
Qwerty Films
Release date(s) UK-September 5, 2008
US-September 12, 2008
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Budget £13,5 million
$25,2 million
€17,1 million
The Duchess is a forthcoming film based on Amanda Foreman’s biography of the scandalous, 18th-century English aristocrat Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. It is scheduled for release in September 2008. Originally to be directed by Susanne Bier, The Duchess was directed by Saul Dibb.
Set at the end of the eighteenth century, The Duchess is the story of the beautiful and, glamorous Georgiana Spencer (Keira Knightley), the most fascinating woman of the age. While her beauty and charisma made her name, her extravagant tastes and appetite for gambling and love made her infamous. Married young to the older, distant Duke of Devonshire, intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana became a fashion icon, a doting mother, a shrewd political operator and darling of the common people. But at the core of her story is a desperate search for love. From Georgiana’s passionate and doomed affair with Earl Grey to the complex ménage à trois with her husband and her best friend, Lady Bess Foster, The Duchess is a very contemporary tale of fame, notoriety and the search for love. (Her love child with Lord Grey was Eliza Courtney).
its a worth wild wait for this movie!
well people say history repeat it self!!
it probably did . . .
1 Comment
January 26, 2009 at 6:58 am
I saw the film and was totally taken by the story of this person who has a strong mind, very smart and political. Her personality is squashed by society of the day and her husband. Film stars aside, this is an historical gem that highlights the role of women at that time.