| | | | First Friday Films presents:
The Duchess Friday, February 4
7:00 p.m. Pre-Fim Lecture
8:00 p.m. Film
The James S. Copley Auditorium at The San Diego Museum of Art
$5 members, students, military, seniors /$10 nonmembers
| | In conjunction with the exhibition Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman, the Museum will screen The Duchess, based on the extravagant personal and political life of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire.
Starring Academy Award nominees Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes, the film is set in the height of the Georgian period, a period of fashion, decadence, and political change. Spirited and adored by the public at large, Duchess Cavendish quickly found her marriage to be filled with disappointment and betrayal. Despite the pressures of an unfaithful husband, strict social expectations, and constant public scrutiny, the Duchess fell passionately in love with a rising young politician, causing her husband to threaten to take her children and destroy her life.
Prior to the film, Dr. Julia Marciari-Alexander, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs, will share scandals and salacious details of the lives of the women featured in Gainsborough’s works. His 1783 portrait of Georgiana Cavendish will be on view inside the Museum for the run of the exhibition.
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