The Duchess
Set at the end of the eighteenth century, The Duchess is the story of the beautiful and, glamorous Georgiana Spencer, the most fascinating woman of the age. While her beauty and charisma made her name, her extravagant tastes and appetite for gambling and love made her infamous. Married young to the older, distant Duke of Devonshire, intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana became a fashion icon, a doting mother, a shrewd political operator and darling of the common people. But at the core of her story is a desperate search for love. From Georgiana's passionate and doomed affair with Earl Grey to the complex ménage à trois with her husband and her best friend, Lady Bess Foster, The Duchess is a very contemporary tale of fame, notoriety and the search for love.
I've decided to watch this only because I like costume dramas and Keira Knightley and I thought it would just be yet another cheesy story with lovely dresses and hats.
And I was wrong... it's more than that. First, I must say both Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes are amazing, but the plot is also pretty interesting (classical, yes, but not boring and overplayed).
Just don't get bothered by the hype about a 18th century Princess of Wales, it's absolutely irrelevant (I mean, a British aristocrat who likes his dogs more than his wife and has a long-time mistress? Not exactly unheard of).
Oh, and the costumes are to die for (even the little girls ones were so damn pretty).
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