![]() Screenwriters: Nicole Holofcener, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon Venue: Venice Film Festival (Out of Competition)Ĭast: Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, Ben Affleck, Harriet Walter, Marton Csokas, Nathaniel Parker, Adam Nagiatis, Alex Lawther, Zeljko Ivanek ![]() Only the last of the three perspectives from which the events are recounted acquires cogency. The large-scale new film, set more than four centuries earlier, adopts a cumbersome Rashomon structure to negotiate a much more legitimate point of honor. With its striking visual tableaux and precision storytelling, the modestly budgeted earlier work traced the ballooning of a minor slight into a consuming obsession in the Napoleonic era. So there’s a certain symmetry to his return, 44 years and many distinguished films later, to another deathly challenge fought on historical French soil in The Last Duel. Ridley Scott made the jump from directing commercials into features with his 1977 debut, The Duellists. ![]()
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