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A look at the platonic relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her female readers during the first days of the French Revolution.A look at the platonic relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her female readers during the first days of the French Revolution.A look at the platonic relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her female readers during the first days of the French Revolution.
- Awards
- 6 wins & 12 nominations
Julie-Marie Parmentier
- La servante Honorine Aubert
- (as Julie-Marie Parmentier de la Comédie Française)
Hervé Pierre
- L'abbé Hérissé
- (as Hervé Pierre de La Comédie Française)
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- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaIn this movie, Diane Kruger speaks French with a German/Austrian accent - which is undoubtedly how the Austrian-born Marie Antoinette would have spoken herself.
- GoofsOn several occasions when soldiers are marching through the main and side gates of Versailles, and also when Sidonie goes to Le Petite Trianon for the first time and falls into a puddle, you can clearly see the very 21st century anti-terrorism concrete security barriers and bollards flanking the gates.
- Quotes
Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: In a way, Your Majesty, you're asking me to go as bait.
La reine Marie Antoinette: An ugly word for a pretty mouth!
Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: Words are all I possess. I wield them well.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Parole de cinéaste: Benoît Jacquot (2017)
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Don't bother
This is a modern historical drama. Characters are not well-developed, and their motivations are not clear. Why is Sidonie so devoted to the Queen? Why does she suddenly want to have sex with the gondolier? Instead, there is LOTS of atmosphere, which makes for one slow film.
You won't learn much about what actually happened in the week that followed the fall of the Bastille, since the story, to the extent that there is a story, is told through the eyes of one of the Queen's domestics. (It does remind you that, in a day not only before computers and the internet, but even television and radio, you could live 30 miles away from momentous events and have no idea what was going on.) Nor will you learn much about Marie-Antoinette or Louis XVI. The latter is a minor character here. MA comes off as very capricious, which she evidently was. But why? Again, there is no character development.
And then, finally, the movie stops, and you go "Oh, is it over?" As I said, LOTS of atmosphere. If that floats your boat, you might like this movie.
It did nothing for me, and I'm very interested in French history.
You won't learn much about what actually happened in the week that followed the fall of the Bastille, since the story, to the extent that there is a story, is told through the eyes of one of the Queen's domestics. (It does remind you that, in a day not only before computers and the internet, but even television and radio, you could live 30 miles away from momentous events and have no idea what was going on.) Nor will you learn much about Marie-Antoinette or Louis XVI. The latter is a minor character here. MA comes off as very capricious, which she evidently was. But why? Again, there is no character development.
And then, finally, the movie stops, and you go "Oh, is it over?" As I said, LOTS of atmosphere. If that floats your boat, you might like this movie.
It did nothing for me, and I'm very interested in French history.
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- richard-1787
- Feb 7, 2013
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- Also known as
- Tạm Biệt, Nữ Hoàng Của Tôi
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- Gross US & Canada
- $1,597,998
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $72,100
- Jul 15, 2012
- Gross worldwide
- $6,366,835
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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