Based on the true story of France's last trial by combat in the Middle Ages. Knight Jean de Carrouges challenges his former friend Jacques Le Gris to a duel after Jean's wife Marguerite accuses Le Gris of rape. Told in multiple "Rashomon-style" points of view.... (Full plot summary below)
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Based on the true story of France's last trial by combat in the Middle Ages. Knight Jean de Carrouges challenges his former friend Jacques Le Gris to a duel after Jean's wife Marguerite accuses Le Gris of rape. Told in multiple "Rashomon-style" points of view.
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| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe Last Duel, directed by Ridley Scott, gives us the texture of life in 14th century France, so much so that we feel that we are there, in this place that’s desperate and foreign and yet human and familiar. |
| ConsequenceClint WorthingtonThe Last Duel is a testament to male self-delusion and self-mythologizing, and the impact it has on the women around them. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperNothing about The Last Duel is subtle. Just about everything about The Last Duel is brutally effective. |
| Paste MagazineBrianna ZiglerRidley Scott directing a grand, riveting medieval epic that doubles as an analysis of gender dynamics might be unexpected, but The Last Duel manages to effortlessly combine Scott’s action sensibilities with an empathetic thread between the past and present. |
| Austin ChronicleMatthew MonagleThe Last Duel is a thematic gold mine, one that sits nicely alongside some of Scott’s best work to date. |
| Original-CinThom ErnstScott contrives a convincing resemblance to events leading up to the last court-sanctioned duel-to-the-death with a meticulous eye for specifics. He transfers a riveting piece of history into a riveting film—mostly. |
| The Film StageEthan VestbyWhile it’s not a wholly interesting or original idea to take battling machismo to task by stripping violence of catharsis, The Last Duel—at least in the brutality of its eventual climax—achieves strong emotional blunt force. A sign that its lightly boring morality play and history lesson before the very pre-determined destination was worth the time. |
| Slant MagazineChris BarsantiRidley Scott’s medieval saga insightfully revels in the complexities of its competing storylines. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreScott and his collaborators find the ugly human foibles underneath the armor, court finery and gowns and make this story from an age when the one percent had the power of life and death over everyone else, when women were literally “property,” topical and timely. |
| The PlaylistJessica KiangIt’s really rather heartening that Affleck, Damon, and Driver are all on such good form in betraying their gender to this degree, as they conspire in illustrating, in a fun, undemanding, slickly made way, how men are now and have always been, the absolute fucking worst. |
