Last Duel, The

[Opened Oct. 15 in theaters.] Wonderful cinematography, costumes, and sets highlight Ridley Scott's engaging, factually based, gripping, well-acted, intense, violent, star-dotted (Harriet Walter, Martin Csokas, Nathaniel Parker, Sam Hazeldine, Michael McElhatton, Alex Lawther, and Bosco Hogan), 152-minute film, which is adapted from Eric Jager's novel and told from three perspectives, in which beautiful, courageous French lady Marguerite de Thibouville (Jodie Comer) in Paris claims self-serving, well-respected squire Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver), who has the powerful count Pierre Alençon (Ben Affleck) in his back pocket, and one time best friend of her supportive husband Sir Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon) raped her in 1386 while her husband was fighting on the battlefield in Scotland and to prove his wife is telling the truth, he will let God decide by challenging the rapist to a duel to the death.
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