The Last Duel
King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire, Jacques Le Gris, by challenging him to a duel.
- Released: 2021-10-13
- Runtime: 153 minutes
- Genre: Action, Drama, History
- Stars: Jodie Comer, Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Ben Affleck, Marton Csokas, Harriet Walter, Clare Dunne, Zeljko Ivanek, Nathaniel Parker, Michael McElhatton, Alex Lawther, Zoé Bruneau, Ian Pirie, William Houston, Sam Hazeldine, Brian F. Mulvey, Caoimhe O'Malley, Clive Russell, Julian Firth, Serena Kennedy, Bosco Hogan, Kevin McGahern, Simone Collins, Paul Bandey, Thomas Silberstein, Florian Hutter, Daniel Horn, Corinne Delacour, Tallulah Haddon, Estelle Baldassin, Oliver Cotton, Bryony Hannah, Adam Nagaitis, John Kavanagh, Christian Erickson, Quentin Ogier, Martin Vaughan Lewis, Stephen Brennan, Adam Goodwin, Sylvain Lablée, Chloé Lindau, Oliver Cotton, Aurélien Lorgnier, Thomas Silberstein, Adam Goodwin, Ian Pirie, Daniel Horn, Michael McElhatton, Sam Hazeldine, Clive Russell, Julian Firth, Sylvain Lablée, Zoé Bruneau, Chloé Lindau, Adam Nagaitis, Elise Caprice, Fiona Maherault Valinski, Tassia Martin, Camille Mutin, Caoimhe O'Malley, John Kavanagh, Zeljko Ivanek, Simone Collins, Clare Dunne, Christian Erickson, Alex Blanchard, Gin Minelli, Cécilia Steiner, Serena Kennedy, Quentin Ogier, Paul Bandey, Martin Vaughan Lewis, Brontis Jodorowsky, Peter Hudson, Alexander Pattie, Dimitri Michelsen, Stephen Brennan, Colin David Reese, Bosco Hogan, Kyle Hixon, Florian Hutter, Sam Chemoul, Jim Roche, Martin Gogarty, Ronan Leonard, Shane Lynch, Peter Kirkby, Kevin McGahern, Lorris Chevalier, Mark Atkin, Janet Grene, Chloe Harris, Karl Hogan, Tyrone Kearns, Brian Manning, Brian F. Mulvey, Fady Naguib
- Director: Ridley Scott
Comments
- Bravo419 - 30 December 2022
Decent film
I felt there were some miscasts with The Last Duel; Damon looks and acts too much like a grunting brute rather than a temperamental knight, while the equally unkempt Driver lacks the good looks the women in the film doted about, instead carrying a puffy and sour expression on his face at all times, which sadly cannot be helped. Comer played her role very well, on the contrary.
The film could've easily been shortened to just two accounts instead of three, combining Damon and Comer's versions of events and thus placing this film below two hours. Comer's version simply further elaborates on and "corrects" some of what she told Damon after all, and with history telling us that the real Carrouges (Damon) did anything but challenge or choke his wife after her accusation, despite the film portraying otherwise, this would have been truer to life as well.
What we're left with is a film where the men are portrayed as violent savages, and the women are helpless victims caught in the middle of it all. Nevertheless, we do get the long-awaiting duel in the end, complete with grappling, half-swording, and other combat techniques of the Middle Ages that were pleasant to see and made up for what preceded the duel, particularly in a film that got several other aspects of this period wrong.
