What I liked the most, first impression:
Than:
What was not so good credible:
The overall impression: even at beginning it seems that violence is too much and not adding value, at the end I would say it left a state of relatively calm in me, due to the fact that the true love to Gabrielle was dominating the movie I would say. Some characters understanding in the end that the success they had following the reason (expected from a king) was emptied by losing the calm and fulfill of a true love.
- furniture decorations of interiors in castles. Big rooms with massive and few furniture pieces. Very realistic. Impressive.
Than:
- the human factor that was so present in anything at that time, big historical events, decisions, etc. There was no institution, only king institution.
- the key people (aristocrats, not ordinary people) were not ashamed of their passions, even they were out of common sens. Superiority and excesses (as normality) was well represented.
- the Henry's good taste for women. All were very beautiful ladies, like with model bodies. Margot and Gabrielle are very beautiful.
- relation with Gabrielle was very special. A calm relation that reveal a true match between them. They match at all levels, it is so well represented and in so few words (really impressive).
- they reproduce realistically the life in middle age. But Germany and France have a huge inheritance in terms of middle age history - a living inheritance even in nowadays - so this is not a real surprise. (the opposite would be a surprise)
What was not so good credible:
- a bit too much aggressive (battles) and sex scenes. A bit like Hollywood style.
- the intrigues at Louvre seemed to me over complicated and they contradicted childish (e.g.: supporting as king the preferred boy (gay), killing everybody for this, just to end up realizing that he can not have any inheritor and propose the throne to Henry Navarra, WTF ?)
- I don't think that noble women could get undressed so quickly at that time, due to many dress layers they were usually wearing.
- really no wigs ?
- all were men in black ? All Huguenots were wearing black ? common...
The overall impression: even at beginning it seems that violence is too much and not adding value, at the end I would say it left a state of relatively calm in me, due to the fact that the true love to Gabrielle was dominating the movie I would say. Some characters understanding in the end that the success they had following the reason (expected from a king) was emptied by losing the calm and fulfill of a true love.