Three queens.(Film)(Marie Antoinette: The Journey)(Movie review)

From: Quadrant | Date: March 1, 2007| Author: McDonald, Neil | Copyright information

A FILM ABOUT Marie Antoinette that stops short of the Revolution and leaves out the Diamond Necklace Affair. Impossible! Yet that is what writer-director Sofia Coppola has done in the first American film about the tragic queen since the 1938 MGM biopic. This new Marie Antoinette begins with her marriage at fourteen to the heir to the throne of France--the Dauphin Louis August--and concludes with the mob marching to Versailles and taking the royal family back to Paris. Although there...

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