7 PM screening is free for AFdOKC Members

OKCMOA Film Society Presents:
Éric Rohmer’s The Lady and the Duke on 35mm

• Our friends in the Film Society invite AFdOKC members to a free 7:00 PM screening of The Lady and the Duke! Please present your AFdOKC membership card as proof of membership.

• The 7 PM screening of The Lady and the Duke in the Noble Theater will be followed by post-screening discussion led by President and CEO Michael Anderson, PhD and Director of Film Programming Lisa K. Broad, PhD

• About the film The Lady and the Duke:
  “Rohmer entered the aughts, as well as his eighties, with this hyper-stylized costume drama, the director’s first literary adaptation since his astonishing, misfit masterpiece Perceval 23 years earlier. Based on the memoirs of Scottish courtesan and spy Grace Elliot, who aided monarchists in France during the Reign of Terror, it casts Lucy Russell (Toni Erdmann) opposite Jean-Claude Dreyfus (Delicatessen) as the titular aristocrats and former lovers—she a royalist sympathizer, he a throne-renouncing revolutionary. Rohmer, ahead of the curve, shot the film on burgeoning digital video and used blue-screen exteriors to superimpose his costumed players onto an uncanny, 18th-century Paris fabricated through CGI and matte painting. The result, elegant and unusual, adds a ravishing visual palette to this talkative tale of political intrigue and right-leaning historical revisionism.” -The Cinematheque

• In French with English subtitles, 2001. (129 minutes)