THE DORKESS

Brit bodice-ripper ‘Duchess’ is ripper-offer

Featuring improbably flat dialog and flaccid delivery, “The Duchess” [imdb] is not to be mistaken for any form of nobility. This turbid period “drama” muddles threadlike thesp Kiera Knightley through themes of love, fidelity, marriage, and sex without drawing any conclusions, or even asking any comprehensible questions. Like an impotent paperback romance, this outing is too stiff to feel genuine, too floppy to be compelling, too numbing to be artsy, and too engorged to be commercial. Pic might draw fem fans, but overall auds and B.O. will be limp.

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