a a fan of eric rohmer study of the contemporary war between the sex and i be very eager to see the lady and the duke ( langlaise et le duc ) for how he would treat men and woman during a real war and the french revolution . the film look beautiful and with each scene design a a period painting and like a tableau vivant . and i expect much talk and a that rohmer style . but maybe rohmer be restrain by base the screenplay on a real woman writing be why this mostly felt like a docudrama version of the scarlet pimpernel . as awful a the excess of robespierre et al and how about some recognition that the french aristocrat be spoiled brat . i keep hum to myself represent marat and be poor or and the poor stay poor while you could also pick a tune from le miz . i wasn not all that sympathetic a the central figure have to go back and forth between her city home and country manor to stay ahead of the revolution . at one point her maid claim the pantry be bare but sure manages to lay out a fine repast . i simply do not understand her and an english sympathizer who alternately reject and defend her former lover and patron a he and the revolution keep shift political focus while i think i be suppose to sympathize with her consistency more than their political machination and like a character out of the scarlet pimpernel . hey and the only reason she do not go back home be her disgrace after an affair and child with the prince of wale or somebody . usually in a revolutionary period there some groundswell of change go on in relation between men and woman and but i saw none here . i once go to a herbert marcuse lecture that conclude with a lengthy q and a while the last question and from an audience member far old than the rest of u acolyte and heck she have gray hair and be why be revolutionary so grim . she be hoot at and marcuse do not deign to respond to it seriously but it the only thing of substance i remember from the whole evening . rohmer demonstrate that counter revolutionary be also grim and didactic . ( originally write 8/1 half 002 ) .