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Farewell My Queen Léa Seydoux stars as one of Marie Antoinette's ladies-in-waiting, seemingly an innocent but quietly working her way into her mistress's special favors, until history tosses her fate onto a decidedly different path.
Indulge in the passion, romance, and chaos in the court of Marie Antoinette during the final days before the French Revolution. Now on Blu-ray and DVD.more i...
- 3 min
- 77.2K
- Cohen Media Group
Jul 12, 2012 · “Farewell, My Queen,” Benoît Jacquot’s tense, absorbing, pleasurably original look at three days in the life and lies of a doomed monarch, opens with a young woman shaking off sleep and ...
- 100 min
- Manohla Dargis
love this gritty, gay marie antoinette!!!. i adore the sofia coppola version too, but farewell, my queen is a perfect antidote/companion. it ditches the head-in-the-clouds lavishness of coppola’s film and trades it for claustrophobic frenzy over the span of four dramatic days — which sometimes feel as if they unfold over real time. jacquot masterfully shows the air of formality starting to ...
Farewell, My Queen marks the return of acclaimed director Benoît Jacquot (A Single Girl, Seventh Heaven, Sade, Deep in the Woods,) and brilliantly captures the passions, debauchery, occasional glimpses of nobility and ultimately the chaos that engulfed the court of Marie Antoinette in the final days before the full-scale outbreak of the Revolution.
Jul 12, 2012 · Farewell, My Queen takes place in Versailles as the French Revolution approaches. But it focuses on Marie Antoinette's servant more than on the aristocracy. Critic Mark Jenkins says that approach ...
Far from the turmoil, at the Château de Versailles, King Louis XVI, Queen Marie-Antoinette and their courtiers keep on living their usual carefree lives. But when the news of the storming of the Bastille reaches them, panic sets in and most of the aristocrats and their servants desert the sinking ship, leaving the Royal Family practically alone.
