It was fascinating to see it through her eyes, it didn't portray her as the idiot she is known as historically, but more a very naive and sheltered young woman who had absolutely no idea or concept or life outside of her own world. I liked how her world was simply the palace and her retreat, and how she longed to go to Paris to the opera, have fun, and the pressures put on her to produce an heir to the throne. The film shows the gossip, scandal hungry, bitching of the royal court, the sheer materialism and consumerism is amazingly captured. I tell you the food looked so damn good, don't watch it if you are hungry
I studied the French revolution for my A'levels, so I was sort of put off seeing the film at the time due to the fact that I knew how events happened as history was recorded and that I'd always been more interested in the post revolutionary politics of France. Once I found out that the film covers the period prior to and then the tip of the revolution, focusing simply on Marie Antionette, I got a little more interested. I then became intruiged more so when I heard that the soundtrack was a mix of classical and modern rock. The music is great as always in Sophia's films, ranging from The Aphex Twin to Siouxsie & The Banshees to The Cure. The masked ball sequence where they are all dancing classically to Hong Kong Garden is one of my favourite scenes in any film of late!
It's like a music video crossed with history drowned in visual glam with really good performances. I loved The Virgin Suicides, one of my all time favourite films, but wasn't taken too much by Lost In Translation, so I honestly was not expecting to be as blown away by it as I was. Typically I've rushed out now and bought it hehe
