Ne touchez pas la hache

 

Guillaume Depardieu had a troubled life, died young, and left some unforgettable performances. One of his last was this adaptation of Balzac's text The Duchess of Langeais (part of the trilogy about a secret society named Treize; a clan that, appropriately, barely appears in the stories), in which he plays a character custom-made for the tremendous, dark energy of the tortured giant he was. Depardieu plays Montriveau, a general of Napoleon's army who goes back to Restoration-period France and [...]

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137 min

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