marie antoinette
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Benoit Jacquot, Farewell, My Queen
The court intrigue that animates Benoit Jacquot’s Farewell, My Queen — set during the final days of Marie Antoinette’s reign — could be the stuff of so many costume dramas. To his great credit, however, the 65-year-old Parisian director, best known on this side of the pond for his 1995 hotel chamber drama A Single Girl, offers an elliptical, accumulative account of the events, keeping them tightly focused on the experience of the Queen’s private reader Sidonie (Léa Seydoux) as the storm clouds of revolution gather from outside the corridors of Versailles and the regime’s demise very quickly becomes inevitable, even […]
by Brandon Harris on Jul 11, 2012 -
THE NEW ORDER OF MARIE ANTOINETTE
Any confusion about the kind of movie Sofia Coppola has been making about the life of Marie Antoinette can be rectified by watching the New Order-scored trailer.
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 9, 2005
