I really enjoyed it!
Ok, I had to switch to French after 2 minutes, otherwise it was really like “not fitting” to hear French people talking in English in Versailles.
The focus is on (surprise surprise) Marie-Antoinette, presented as what she was, a teenager sent into the French arena. Same with her husband, a teenager, not ready to be a king. Not ready to be a husband either.
Sofia Coppola made this movie with much sensitivity. Focusing on details which symbolized everything.
Like when it starts, Marie-Antoinette leaves Austria for France. Sofia Coppola decides to show how long and boring the trip was. A detail which suddenly gives much humanity to History!
I also liked a lot the way the etiquette is presented, how silly it must have been for a 15 years-old girl to follow it.
Another thing that touched me in the movie was the way Luxury was like natural for Marie-Antoinette. Because she was born in luxury, because luxury was the only escape to her fate and unhappiness too.
And I think that fits to the historic character. Her world was not the people's world.
In the movie, Marie-Antoinette's world is completely cut from the revolutionary background (brilliant idea!). We do not hear anything about the revolution just as if we were trapped in Versailles, like the queen and king.
At the end only, Revolution rushes into her life, like a shark coming from deep waters.
Poor kids, they were born at the wrong time in the wrong place!
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