Marie Antoinette and the ghosts of the French revolution.(Video recording review)

From: Cineaste | Date: March 22, 2007| Author: Zevin, Alexander | Copyright information

Marie Antoinette is undergoing renovations. More than 200 years after her violent death, she has been revived, most recently as the star of a warm, sympathetic film directed by Sofia Coppola. Despite the fanfare surrounding the film's premiere, it is only the culmination of a larger discursive trend: Marie Antoinette as young and misunderstood, a prisoner of protocol, her royal relations, and of France. Such is the forgiving tone set by Antonia Fraser's 2001 biography, Marie Antoin...

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