THE LAST DUEL Verdict: Great Scott on form Rating: The first feature film directed by Ridley Scott was 1977's The Duellists, set in Napoleonic France. Now he brings us The Last Duel, also set in France Scott's critics might also note a characteristic narrative slog. GOING UNDERGROUND WITH LOU'S VELVETS Even at the time, it wasn't easy to explain the …
Ridley Scott’s medieval #MeToo drama The Last Duel opens big as it sets the stage for a 1386 duel to the death between two armored combatants on horseback. Just as the first blow is about to be struck, the story cuts to 26 years earlier, when the two combatants, the knight Jean de Carrouges and the squire Jacques Le Gris …
