Mostly Entertaining “The Duelist” Is a Revenge Tale with a Russian Twist

The Duelist (“Дуэлянт”) (Aleksey Mizgirev, 2016) A very silly, if often dramatically effective, confection of a 19th-century period thriller, the new Russian movie The Duelist gives us the violent action promised by its title embedded in a story of revenge that takes its cue from the adventures of the great French author Alexander Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo). … Continue reading Mostly Entertaining “The Duelist” Is a Revenge Tale with a Russian Twist