The Duchess

Friday 5th until Thursday 11th September 2008 | times tbc book tickets

1hr 50, UK 2008. Directed by Saul Dibb.  With Keira Knightly, Charlotte Rampling & Ralph Fiennes.

Based on the bestselling historical biography, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman, THE DUCHESS is an intelligent and compelling portrait of a remarkable woman. Married young to the cool and distant Duke of Devonshire (Fiennes, THE CONSTANT GARDENER), intimate of ministers and princes, Georgiana (Knightley, ATONEMENT, THE EDGE OF LOVE) was a fashion icon, a doting mother and a shrewd political operator. But at the core of her story is a desperate search for warmth and love. From her passionate and doomed affair with Earl Grey (Cooper, THE HISTORY BOYS) to her complex ménage à trois with her husband and her best friend, Lady Bess Foster (Atwell, CASSANDRA’S DREAM), THE DUCHESS is a very contemporary tale of fame, notoriety and the quest for love.