The Last Duel (dir. Ridley Scott).

Written and produced by Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Nicole Holofcener, Scott’s lavish adaptation of the real-life events surrounding the late fourteenth century French historical duel is a bitter tale of medieval dishonour told through three different Rashomon-style perspectives of its three leads played by Damon (Jean de Carrouges), Adam Driver (Jacques Le Gris), and Jodie Comer (Marguerite de Carrouges).

While stylishly realized with some finely choreographed battle sequences and Middle Ages period design, the film’s repetitive structure in retelling its central crime in question falters in its false sense of duelling points-of-view. It takes too long before Comer’s Marguerite truly reveals herself as the only real historical character worth following.