Don't Touch the Axe

Guillaume Depardieu and Michel Piccoli star in Rivette's adaptation of Balzac's novel

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Jeanne Balibar and Guillaume Depardieu are 19th-century lovers in a stately, intense Paris salon romance, adapted from Balzac's novel La Duchesse de Langeais by French New Wave veteran Jacques Rivette.

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