Love/Hate

Novelchick and company saw Marie Antoinette on Monday eve. And our opinion? If a bunch of idiots would get up off of this movie for five minutes and freakin' read a little history they wouldn't pan it.

Look, I went in with my husband's handkerchief prepared to slog through beheadings, the drawn out death of two children and a whole lot of sad. Check it, didn't happen. Sofia Coppola very brilliantly stuck to presenting Marie's life at Versailles through the eyes of a young girl. The movie starts when she gets there and ends when they leave.

A lot of people aren't getting it. And that's cool because a lot of people are uneducated, not particularly smart or just plain believe everything that they heard in their ninth grade history class. But I'm not sure why they're going to the movie. From the user reviews it appears a lot of them were looking for some sort of political/historical piece. That's not what we have here. We have an honest look at what it was like to be Marie, how she spent her time and how innacurately she has been portrayed through history. Yes, there are a few things that got washed out of the mix but they were things that would have taken a whole two hours of nothing but political intrigue to set up. The Affair of the Necklace. The sex of the mob that marched on Versailles. How Madame Du Barry spent her time at court making Marie's life into one living hell. But this movie is lovely. To be shot at Versailles, in Marie's bedroom, in the Petite Trianon, in her little village, on the balcony, in reproduced costumes. You really see it through a child's eyes. Okay, so just so we're clear.

Not about French Revolution
Not about Socio-economic impact of monarchy
Not about the Affair of the Necklace
Not about Beheading
No death scenes of small children (actually the death of her daughter was handled SO well)
It is a Love Story
It is about a fourtenn year old girl sold into marriage unexpectedly after her two older sisters die
It is about the bizarre life at court compared to her ultra conservative mother's court
It is about the innocence of Marie and Louis and how it cost them everything
It has a righteous soundtrack

Now, at least, if nothing else, read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette and this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_the_necklace