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Star rating: ***
Dir: Jacques Rivette
With: Jeanne Balibar, Guillaume Depardieu

Jacques Rivette's drama has it all - an impassioned suitor, a torn woman, class, religion, revenge and war. Based on the Balzac novella, La Duchesse de Langeais, it opens in Majorca in 1823, where the forlorn general Armand de Montriveau (Guillaume Depardieu, son of Gerard) has rediscovered his first, great love living in seclusion in a convent.

Cut to Paris five years earlier and we find out what brought the beautiful and flighty Antoinette (Jeanne Balibar) to a nunnery. Rivette allows the "sentimental war" that raged between the couple to play out at a stately, theatrical pace, but it is never dull. Sometimes starchy, but never dull.

While Depardieu junior doesn't have the magnetism of his father, he flourishes in Balibar's presence, with the pair bringing a captivating, unashamedly romantic tale to a remarkable end.

Glasgow Film Theatre, until March 3

12:01am Thursday 28th February 2008

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