Marie Antoinette Movie Review
Marie Antoinette
“Let them eat cake.” The movie Marie Antoinette sure is as sweet and colorful as cake. The film premiered worldwide on May 24, 2006. Marie Antoinette has won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. It has also won best Art Direction and Best Costume Design for both the Las Vegas and Phoenix Films Critics Society Awards. Kirsten Dunst, who plays the gorgeous Marie herself, has won the MTV Award for best Breakthrough Performance and the Saturn Award for Best Young Actress. Jason Schwartzman plays King Louis XVI, has also starred in I ♥ Huckabees, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Bewitched. Marie Antoinette is a biographical drama; meaning it is a dramatic portrayal of her life.
The movie is set in the late seventeenth century in Vienna, Austria, and then moves to Versailles France. There are also many scenes shot at Marie’s Petit Trianon, a small “village” for her own personal use. The production crew for Marie Antoinette was surprisingly given access to these places for the film.
The main character, obviously Marie Antoinette, or the dauphine, is sent off to France at age fourteen. She depicts the characteristics of any normal teenage girl: a passion for fashion, love of anything sweet and sugary, and your regular party animal. Her husband, King Louis XVI, or the dauphin, is an extremely mature, but shy fifteen-year-old. His hobbies include, hunting and making locks and keys. His father, Louis XV, is extremely promiscuous, allowing his mistress, Madame du Barry, to accompany him when he is with the Court. Later in the dauphine’s life, Count Fersen comes along, a soldier who was sent to America to fight the Revolution. He is a seventeenth century McSteamy. Considering the film was set many centuries ago, the actors and actresses in the film do an outstanding job representing these historical icons.
Her mother, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, selected Marie Antoinette to seal the alliance between Austria and France. The
“Let them eat cake.” The movie Marie Antoinette sure is as sweet and colorful as cake. The film premiered worldwide on May 24, 2006. Marie Antoinette has won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. It has also won best Art Direction and Best Costume Design for both the Las Vegas and Phoenix Films Critics Society Awards. Kirsten Dunst, who plays the gorgeous Marie herself, has won the MTV Award for best Breakthrough Performance and the Saturn Award for Best Young Actress. Jason Schwartzman plays King Louis XVI, has also starred in I ♥ Huckabees, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Bewitched. Marie Antoinette is a biographical drama; meaning it is a dramatic portrayal of her life.
The movie is set in the late seventeenth century in Vienna, Austria, and then moves to Versailles France. There are also many scenes shot at Marie’s Petit Trianon, a small “village” for her own personal use. The production crew for Marie Antoinette was surprisingly given access to these places for the film.
The main character, obviously Marie Antoinette, or the dauphine, is sent off to France at age fourteen. She depicts the characteristics of any normal teenage girl: a passion for fashion, love of anything sweet and sugary, and your regular party animal. Her husband, King Louis XVI, or the dauphin, is an extremely mature, but shy fifteen-year-old. His hobbies include, hunting and making locks and keys. His father, Louis XV, is extremely promiscuous, allowing his mistress, Madame du Barry, to accompany him when he is with the Court. Later in the dauphine’s life, Count Fersen comes along, a soldier who was sent to America to fight the Revolution. He is a seventeenth century McSteamy. Considering the film was set many centuries ago, the actors and actresses in the film do an outstanding job representing these historical icons.
Her mother, Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, selected Marie Antoinette to seal the alliance between Austria and France. The