Marie Antoinette

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Schwartzman: It was an experience I’ll never forget. I met my wife because of that movie in a way, because I had met her a few days before the premiere in Los Angeles. I asked her if she’d come as my date and that was pretty much the night I decided I was in love with her. So that movie kinda propelled me into the next phase of my life. Marie-Antoinette is one of the most fascinating and controversial figures in all of French history. This volume explores the many struggles by various individuals and groups to put right Marie's identity, and it simultaneously links these struggles to larger destabilizations in social, political and gender systems in France. Uncover the reality behind Marie-Antoinette's famous phrase, “Let them eat cake” See all videos for this article Katz: There was a very good chance we were gonna get turned down. But one of the reasons the palace said they approved us was because Sofia’s film didn’t sound like another dusty costume drama. They said “Versailles is not a museum, it’s alive.” They didn’t want a movie that felt like a museum piece and Sofia presented a really vibrant take on a person we’ve only really seen in paintings before. The opening of Marie Antoinette is inspired by the work of French fashion photographer Guy Bourdin, specifically a campaign he shot for Charles Jourdan in fall 1977.

Acord: Sofia’s style of filming is to create an environment that’s fun to be in. When there’s music playing or the cast was eating and drinking with one another, I would essentially be a fly on the wall. It was all about creating a mood and then capturing it. A lot of moments that feel so natural are because the people on camera are having fun in the moment. On a May morning in 1664, in the small village of Versailles, as hundreds of young aristocrats are coming to pay court to King Louis XIV, a peasant fan-maker gives birth to her first and only child, Marguerite. Determined to give her daughter a better life than the one she herself has lived, the young mother vows to break the newborn’s bonds of poverty and ensure that she fulfills her… Another problem with the dates surrounding the attribution is that when the phrase first appeared, Marie Antoinette was not only too young to have said it, but living outside France as well. Although published in 1782, Rousseau's Confessions were finished thirteen years prior in 1769. Marie Antoinette, only fourteen years old at the time, would not arrive at Versailles from Austria until 1770. Since she was completely unknown to him at the time of writing, she could not have possibly been the "great princess" he mentioned. [14] Other attributions [ edit ] Dunst: My favourite dresses were anything I wore at the Petit Trianon because I didn’t have to wear a corset. My head didn’t throb and my ribs didn’t hurt when I wore them. The Trianon was Marie’s time to relax and loosen up, so [they] were like much more bohemian versions of the proper court dresses. Fraser: I was of course furious to hear about the booing, but as an Englishwoman who had written about Marie Antoinette, I wasn’t surprised. I would visit exhibitions at Versailles and see a French teacher point at a photo of Marie Antoinette and tell young children, “ Voila, le reine maschent.” [“Here, the evil queen.”]

Coppola: My friend told me that a lot of moms and pre-teen daughters watch it together as a sort of tradition. There was a screening a few years ago where I got to watch it on a big screen with my daughter, and it was so gratifying to see it through her eyes and how into it she was.

To commemorate its anniversary, Vogue talked to the cast, crew, and more about how Marie Antoinette came together. “I Was Less Interested in the Political Side of History’”

a b Fraser, Antonia (2002). Marie Antoinette: The Journey. Anchor. pp. xviii, 160. ISBN 978-0385489492. Johnson, Paul (1990). Intellectuals. New York: Harper & Row. pp. 17–18. ISBN 9780060916572. The 'facts' he so frankly admits often emerge, in the light of modern scholarship, to be inaccurate, distorted or non-existent.