**WARNING: We've done our best to leave any spoilers out, but if you don't want to know anything about what goes on in the film, we suggest having a read of this story after you've seen it**
'The Last Duel', the latest offering from British director Ridley Scott, is a star-studded blockbuster set in France in 1386.
It premiered on Friday 15 October and has so far picked up largely promising reviews from both critics and fans.
Based on the eponymous 2004 book by Eric Jager, it teems with stars, seeing the likes of heavy-hitters Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jodie Comer and Adam Driver attempt to settle a rape accusation through trial by mortal combat.
The story of the alleged atrocity take place from three different viewpoints: Jean de Carrogues' (played by Damon), Jacques Le Gris' (played by Driver) and finally Marguerite de Carrouges' (played by Comer).
Is The Last Duel based on real events?
Yes, the events that take place in the film are based on historical events that took place in Paris in 1386.
The most certified of which is the duel itself, which is the 'last' because it was the final legally ordained duel to take place in France.
Other events, given the storytelling method of showing events from three differing perspectives, are slightly less set in stone.
In fact the question of whether Marguerite de Carrouges was raped by Jacques Le Gris remains a mystery still unsolved over 600 years later.
What we do know is that Marguerite did accuse Jacques Le Gris former friend of rape while her husband Jean, once a friend of Jacques, was away in Paris on a financial errand.
Jean declared a duel between himself and Le Gris, however the stakes on both sides were enormous, with the punishment for rape at the time set as death, with the punishment for a false accusation also death.
However, while Jager's book is based on real historical events and the film in turn based on the book, it would be wrong to claim the film is an utterly truthful fact sharing documentary.
The LA Times report that according to Jager the film is "at least 75 percent historically accurate, maybe more".
Ahead of the film, Ben Affleck said: "Schools educate you, and religious services deliver sermons, and movies — at their best — can generate empathy and generate compassion.
“There is this paradox of the human experience where oftentimes different people come away from the same situation with different impressions of that. And yet there can only be one truth.
"We wanted to examine that. But we wanted to do it through the lens of this situation.
“So it wasn’t so much about hewing fastidiously to historical truth, because that wouldn’t have served the narrative needs we were as interested in, as much as illuminating the fact that the vestiges of the sexism and misogyny of the patriarchy we live with now come from a place that was Western civilization’s codified value system.”