I am a huge history buff. that is known throughout my family and friends. And i am living proof that a movie doesn't have to be a hundred percent historically accurate for it to therefore be enjoyable and to be enjoyed by people who love history. i know that the story isn't correct, i've read the antonia fraser biography (and one by caroline weber).. i know what's going on. But i still enjoyed this story, sympathetically told from the point of the view of the doomed queen.
The costumes! Oh the costumes! They deserved an Oscar, they should have won 20. There were apparently over 80 costume changes for Kirsten Dunst (marie antoinette) and it makes for some frippery frothy finery goodness. There's satin, silk, taffeta, egyptian cotton, shiny shimmery chiffon and deep velvet, lining of ermine, embellishments of ribbons, feathers, little birds, beads, diamonds galore and the shoes.
They were, quite simply, another character in the film. THere was colour and vibrancy and everything that you expected from the 'queen of fashion' as caroline weber called her. the costumes made this movie.
It made me want to find some costume jewellery (paste of course) and swan around in swathes of satin, or in a long white gown like she did in the petits trianon. i actually have a long white dress in the regency style that one day i would like to dress up with my fake diamonds and feathers in my hair.
I also thought the music was excellenet as well, a mish mash mixture of period vivaldi and harpsichord with new order, siouxie and the banshees, adam and the ants etc etc that showed that these people were, after all, just teenagers having fun for most of their lives. Reports told that marie antoinette was not a bright girl, though she tried very hard. what would you do, with incredible riches on your hands? I would throw a party, or two. shows that me and marie are more similar that i thought, right?
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