Farewell My Queen Les adieux à la reine
Marking the return of acclaimed director Benoit Jacquot (A Single Girl), FAREWELL, MY QUEEN brilliantly captures the passions, debauchery, occasional glimpses of nobility and ultimately the chaos that engulfed the court of Marie Antoinette in the final days before the full-scale outbreak of the Revolution.
Based on the best-selling novel by Chantal Thomas, this film stars Lea Seydoux (The Lobster) as one of Marie's ladies-in-waiting, quietly working her way into her mistress's special favors, until history tosses her fate onto a decidedly different path. With the action moving effortlessly from the gilded drawing rooms of the nobles to the back quarters of those who serve them, this is a period film at once accurate and sumptuous in its visual details and modern in its emotions. Diane Kruger (Inglourious Basterds) gives her best performance to date as the ill-fated Queen.
Nominated for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival. Nominated for Best Actress (Lea Seydoux), Best Director, and Best Film at the Cesar Awards.
"... A layer cake of royal pleasures, rote protocols and revolutionary politics. For skeptics who thought this story had grown stale, let them eat their words." - Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Comments (9)
Beautifully photographed & acted film (though highly fictionalized)about The Queen's Reader"; a young servant who reads to Marie-Antoinette & how she gets involved in a plot to save the life of her Queen's beloved lady-in-waiting Mdme De Poliginac
Enjoyed this very much.
Farewell my Queen is a lovely story told true too fact with the bugs and the rats since the land was a swamp it wasinfected with criters and i love that they made note of this and the bi sexual affair or just pure lust it was told very under the wire which i loved very much tjhe costumes and ...Read more
Farewell my Queen is a lovely story told true too fact with the bugs and the rats since the land was a swamp it wasinfected with criters and i love that they made note of this and the bi sexual affair or just pure lust it was told very under the wire which i loved very much tjhe costumes and the pomp and circumstance was right on que . remember France and especially paris was starving and the king wanted more and war was on all fronts even in there own yard spot yes it was a bit all over the place but that was true to the era. love it and i have watch it twice to make sure i was correct in this review
Read lessSettings, costumes and acting really good. Pity the script doesn't much up to it, it's a bit pointless and unfocused. Overall ok but don't expect a great historic drama.
I enjoyed this view into the household at Versailles—a more personal, private and provocative take than Sofia Coppola's. Diane Kruger was perfect, a study in regal iciness, intoxicated with passion, and aching with deep anguish. It ended somewhat abruptly for me - I wanted to keep watching as ...Read more
I enjoyed this view into the household at Versailles—a more personal, private and provocative take than Sofia Coppola's. Diane Kruger was perfect, a study in regal iciness, intoxicated with passion, and aching with deep anguish. It ended somewhat abruptly for me - I wanted to keep watching as things unfolded.
Read lessFabulous film. The film deserves all the accolades it has received from professisonal groups. I can see the story has all the depth, beauty and full life of the historic moment depicted, which great literature has attempted to depict in Mark Twain's _Prince and the Pauper_, Dumas(?) _Man in ...Read more
Fabulous film. The film deserves all the accolades it has received from professisonal groups. I can see the story has all the depth, beauty and full life of the historic moment depicted, which great literature has attempted to depict in Mark Twain's _Prince and the Pauper_, Dumas(?) _Man in the Iron Mask_. The director's vision with the aid of all his specialists, is realized like the best period films, Kubrick's _Barry Lyndon_, with the intimacy among characters like the best romantic films by Nora Ephron or . . ?
In 2018, when the disparity of political power and wealth has never been made wider, and never involved so many citizens, subordinated to so few, against reason, ethics, and against the common good of citizens, and our posterity - this story resonates with truth and emotion from 200 years ago, between servants and royals (corporate donors controlling 2 political parties in local nation), between royal servants (funded/elected party representatives) and working, starving common folk today (working poor, formerly "middle class" - 90% of US citizens - presumably similar, or worse in democratic nations around globe).
The art of this film, and the story its based on did not have to be as crudely blatant as I am here - this is a strong, interesting, engaging, interpersonal, human story, with risks of loss, investments of heart, life, fortunes, during historic moments of challenges to failed love, failed compassion, failed justice.
Read lessLovely film!
wow powerful;
glad I watched it
Cool movie, plenty of tension.