Sofia Coppella did a great job of conveying the misery and besieged state of Marie Antoinette's life, I recommend you do see it-- as for casting-- according to Hollywood standards, Kirsten Dunst, with her charmingly uneven teeth is as close as you are realistically going to come to a jutting jaw. It is a stylized film, not intended to be only a dry historically accurate presentation-- and the despair of the decadent 1980s seems to be a good mix with the despair of pointlessly decadent French court life. I haven't read Marie Antoinette: The Journey, but I am a fan of some of Antonia Frasier's earlier works-- have you read her The Wives of Henry the Eight? It's similarly sympathetic and balanced.
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Date: 2009-12-23 10:06 pm (UTC)It is a stylized film, not intended to be only a dry historically accurate presentation-- and the despair of the decadent 1980s seems to be a good mix with the despair of pointlessly decadent French court life.
I haven't read Marie Antoinette: The Journey, but I am a fan of some of Antonia Frasier's earlier works-- have you read her The Wives of Henry the Eight? It's similarly sympathetic and balanced.