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I went to the Brisbane premiere last night and thought this frothy mixture a wasted opportunity. The titles suggest a punk princess or at least an irreverent approach to showing the monarchy (anarchy in Versailles?) but this immediately disappears in a whirl of dresses and cakes, most of which, like the film, have one bite taken and are then disgarded. Even a neat idea like using several Bow wow wow tracks (BWW had an "underage" singer).
I believe the real dauphin and dauphine were much younger than the actors and the line "we are too young to rule" sits awkwardly in the film. In fact little emerges about the royal couple other than he seems to know little about his hobby of lock making but instead likes to go hunting a lot and that she has little understanding of even court behaviour let alone the world outside her immediate circle.
Frankly I thought the trailer better than the film especially in its use of the New Order track.
A curiously unsatisfying cake... errr film where you were left willing the mob to arrive and behead everyone in sight.
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As much as I liked her other two films, i walked out on this one.
She lives in Paris and his seemingly happy with a French guy.
n/t
Perhaps he was lost in the revolutionary mob, waving a torch...
...somebody would have been talking Oscar, again.
It just could be.
THis discussion has produced more French.... errrrr more FRench history than the film.
...my wife and teenaged daughter loved it.
I thought it failed but I did see where she was trying to go with it.
I understand that trying to show MA as a bored teenager might play well, but the lack of any content/comment on actual history means this should just be seen as a fairy tale of US high school life instead of European history.
The revolution is hilarious with an anonymous mob waving torches and baying for blood like the villagers in Frankenstein.
Sophia Coppola started it before moving on to write by Lost In Translation. The lack of interest shows doesn't it?
Its half hearted. The electric lights instead of candles... absolutely no character development, even the death of a child is marked only by walking a corridor for 5 seconds in a black dress and then its back to another cakes on a blanket scene. And why did they want to change the number and deaths of her children????
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