The Last Duel
My father told me my life would be blessed with good fortune. I’m married. I was a good wife. And then I was judged and shammed by my country.
Middle Ages, between 1370 and 1386. The two Norman squires Jean de Carrouges and Jacques Le Gris live the world and life as a battlefield, even if they are very different from each other. De Carrouges follows the rules of honor, respect, and arms, as a great soldier in the field, while Le Gris is tied to his genius and the cunning that makes him become the deputy of Pierre d’Alençon, count and cousin of King Charles VI.
All this precarious balance of relationships is suddenly upset by the breaking into the lives of both of Marguerite de Thibouville, a beautiful daughter with a dowry of a noble who marries De Carrouges, and a woman who becomes the obsession of Le Gris. The latter, taking advantage of everyone’s absence, abuses Marguerite who tells her husband. While Le Gris denies the incident, De Carrouges asks the king to have a chivalrous duel, where God can tell where the truth is. With the risk, however, that if he were to lose the duel, Marguerite will be burned alive.
An action-packed historical drama that begins in a slow and detached way, managing to enter step by step into the bones of the spectator, who inevitably finds himself involved in a story that, we must admit, could be what happens to each of us, even in our…
