Jacques Rivette – Ne touchez pas la hache AKA Don’t Touch The Axe (2007)

Handsome young general Armand de Montriveau has searched across the seas for the woman he fell madly in love with five years ago. He finally finds Antoinette, the Duchess of Langeais, living chastely in a Majorcan convent… It was love at first sight for Montriveau upon meeting Antoinette, a married coquette who frequents the most extravagant balls of 1820s Restoration Paris, where hypocrisy and vanity reign. Flattered by his attentions, the alluring Antoinette orchestrates a calculating game of seduction, but she repeatedly refuses Montriveau. Despite his sincere romantic declarations, Montriveau’s passion remains unfulfilled. When the humiliated Montriveau eventually seeks his revenge, Antoinette’s love awakens. But it may well be too late for the star-crossed lovers.

”If mise en scène is a dance of love and death, few directors can fashion a choreography as romantic and tortuous as Rivette, in this dazzling two-hender costume melodrama.”
— Adrian Martin

RIVETTE Jacques-2007-Ne touchez pas la hache.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2 h 11 min
Size: 	2.03 GiB
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Resolution: 	1280x720 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 070 kb/s
BPP: 	0.090
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Language(s):French, Italian
Subtitles:English, hardcoded French for non-French sections