Just an average, boring costume drama

Farewell, My Queen is a surprisingly good film about a lady-in-waiting's devotion to Marie Antionette, even as a people's rebellion threatens to ruin everything. Lea Seydoux and Diane Kruger give fantastic performances in this subtle and fascinating film.

since when am i such a sucker for period pieces? did MARIE ANTOINETTE irrevocably damage me in some way? this is unsettling. anyway, this lavish (natch) but dramatically inert portrait of Marie Antoinette's final days (as seen through the eyes of her buxom royal reader) finally combines corsets with zooms, which is apparently something i'd been waiting to see. hobbled by an ungainly script, the film does a much better job of capturing imminent collapse and the lustful side-effects of servitude than it does selling any of its characters. but Léa Seydoux... oh man.

50/100

Las Vegas Weekly review forthcoming, provided I can think of anything to say (a mere 150 words seems daunting). As a character study, it's almost completely opaque, and the servants'-eye view of the French Revolution plays like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead with those two characters as originally conceived—the restricted vantage point merely renders history inert, and not in a productive or challenging way. Still not sold on Seydoux as a focal point, either—Ursula Meier uses her perfectly in Sister, and she's hilariously inexpressive in Ghost Protocol, but give her a bona fide character and she tends to retreat into ostensibly enigmatic passivity, as if convinced that she can't be faulted for what she doesn't attempt. Mostly, the film just feels lifeless; Sade, a dozen years ago, seemed like a step in the wrong direction for Jacquot (since confirmed), but at least it roused itself from torpor now and again.

All about Lea Seydoux and the Soundtrack were unforgettable things ..

Interessante abordagem sob a alegada homossexualidade de Maria Antonieta. Diane Kruger, sua linda!

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

A distant and cold film built around a lead character we're given no information about other than her desperate love for Marie Antoinette. Lea Seydoux almost pulls off building empathy and sorrow for her character despite having so little to work with, but doesn't quite get there. The film does have a certain historical attractiveness in its "realistic" portrait of what life at Versailles might have been like for those outside the royal circle and I enjoyed the low tech, word of mouth way that rumors and news of the unrest in Paris and the activities around the Bastille are reported; but it's just not quite enough.

Visuals help overcome a too-simple story. Diane Kruger gives a good performance when given a chance. I want every single dress in this movie.

Good, handsomely crafted homoerotic Marie Antoinette pic, but not juicy enough to make 'Let them eat cake' a double entendre.

Interesting story about Marie Antoinette. IT humanizes Marie Antoinette, and it does a great job of showing the terror of the upcoming deaths of MA and Louis XVI. I just wish it were more substantial. The waking dreams are a bit annoying.

Just an average, boring costume drama

Fairly interesting character study of the queen and her reader. I thought I should check this out because it sounded like an interesting film and it never bored me like I feared it would. The acting and chemistry was fairly good and this film is a good example of blind faith and what it can lead to.