The Last Duel (2021)
The film is parted into three sections, each managing the viewpoints of Jean de Carrouges, Jacques Le Gris, and Marguerite de Carrouges.
Subsequent to serving in the Caroline War, French respectable Jean de Carrouges and his assistant Jacques Le Gris swear fealty to Count Pierre d'Alençon, who has been named Jean's master by King Charles VI. Jacques later tells Jean that Pierre has requested that him gather war demands, consenting to request mercy for Jean's benefit when his brother-in-arms clarifies he does not have the assets.
To reestablish his funds, Jean weds Marguerite de Thibouville, getting an enormous endowment and the freedoms to numerous important bequests. Pierre, be that as it may, has effectively gifted one critical domain to Jacques. At the point when Jean takes the matter prior to King Charles, the ruler excuses the suit.Pierre fights back by naming Jacques to the captaincy of a fortification that the Carrouges family had held for ages. Jean's marriage becomes stressed because of Marguerite's inability to imagine a youngster while Jacques wins Pierre's trust and procures a situation at court by utilizing his bookkeeping information to coordinate the count's accounts.
The two men later accommodate at a celebration, where Jacques becomes stricken with Marguerite later she gets to know him trying to win favor. Jacques misjudges this as a response of his expressions of warmth and suspects that she doesn't adore Jean.
Following a tactical mission in Scotland that leaves him knighted for his endeavors yet at the same time bankrupt, Jean embarks for Paris to gather cash. While Jean is away, his mother takes the workers to assist her with tasks, letting Marguerite be. Jacques later visits and fools his direction into the estate, haughtily announcing his adoration. At the point when he overlooks Marguerite's requests to leave, she endeavors to escape from his advances just for him to pursue her to her room which he confuses as her enticing him to engage in sexual relations and he fiercely assaults her prior to requesting her not to tell her better half.
Upon Jean's return, she lets him know what occurred; later savagely addressing whether she is coming clean, Jean becomes persuaded that Jacques assaulted Marguerite to confront him explicitly, and demands that Marguerite quickly have intercourse with him so Jacques won't be "the last man that knew her."
Pierre illuminates Jacques that Jean is blaming him for assaulting Marguerite, which he denies. In spite of the count's endeavor to apply his position, Jean requests his case straightforwardly to King Charles and solicitations a duel until the very end. Jacques acknowledges the demand.
Marguerite's companions leave her, trusting her to mislead conceal an undertaking because of her having recently commented on Jacques' attractiveness, while Jean's mother later demands Marguerite drop her allegations (and submit to any outcomes), so her child may be saved court's judgment, refering to a past event in her childhood when she personally was assaulted.
At Jacques' preliminary a half year after the fact, a now-pregnant Marguerite stays unfaltering that she is coming clean, while the court suggests that Jacques is the father of her youngster. Charles VI awards Jean's solicitation for a duel until the very end. Marguerite defies Jean for not telling her she would be scorched alive assuming he fizzled. Marguerite brings forth her child days before the duel happens.
The duel starts with Jean and Jacques jousting until the two men lose their mounts and battle hand-to-hand. Jean is cut however ultimately figures out how to nail down Jacques. He requests that Jacques admit or confront perdition, however Jacques guarantees his blamelessness, truly accepting he didn't assault her; Jean kills him. Jean lounges in the greatness of his triumph while Marguerite follows discreetly behind.
A literary epilog uncovers Jean passed on battling in the Crusades a couple of years after the fact while Marguerite kept dealing with his bequest, living in harmony for the leftover thirty years of her life and never wedding again.
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