Jacques Rivette - Ne touchez pas la hache / Don't Touch the Axe (2007)

Ne touchez pas la hache (2007)



AKA Don't Touch the Axe



Director: Jacques Rivette

Writers: Honore de Balzac (novel) and

Pascal Bonitzer (writer)



Jeanne Balibar ... Antoinette de Langeais

Guillaume Depardieu... Armand de Montriveau

Michel Piccoli ... Vidame de Pamiers

Bulle Ogier ... Princesse de Blamont-Chauvry

Anne Cantineau ... Clara de Serizy

Mathias Jung ... Julien



Jacques Rivettes masterful film tells the tale of an

ill-fated love affair between a Parisian socialite and a

Napoleonic war hero. Their story unfolds amidst the

extravagant balls of restoration-era Paris where the

handsome General Armand de Montriveau (Guillaume

Depardieu) encounters the beautiful, coquettish but

married Antoinette de Langeais (Jeanne Balibar). Vowing

that she will be his lover, Montriveau pursues the

alluring Antoinette who in turn orchestrates a

calculating game of seduction but repeatedly rebuffs his

advances ...





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Language: French

Subtitles: English