Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

I liked it, and was entranced despite filler scenes and occasional lapses in dramatic punch. But to coyly deprive us of the beheading really takes the cake, pardon the pun. The attempt at profundity by showing Marie's empty bedroom only heightens the immense dramatic error of what really happened to this lady. It COULD have been nominated for Best Pic if they had done that. Alas, huge miscalculation on filmmakers' part. Still, a visual eye-fest, and I appreciated the low-key, matter-of-fact approach.

Slow at points, but the sets & costumes are stunning and it's gorgeously shot. I've seen it multiple times and I always find something new love.

I'm French and for sure Republican. My fellow citizens have annihilated Monarchy and if nobody deserves death, you understand that I don't really enjoy movies that focus about the Royals and that wrongly put them as icons! This one has in addition a special statute being directed by the daughter of one the biggest name in cinema history: so it's again about families, reproduction of blood, well everything that was condemned by my Revolution (and here, this famous historical quote is even erased…). If I analyze her level forgetting her name, I would say that she doesn't seem really inspired: the movie is flat, not dynamic, as linear and repetitive as the court life and at the end, I don't see gripping moments… The only thing that makes the movie alive is the vitality of Kirsten Dunst and for sure the real (or rebuilt) locations of Versailles. So the movie depicts really how golden this cage was.. Maybe the desire to be a mother is sincere but to be blind to the needs of the people while getting well stuffed everyday can't lead to respect and interest from this same people, yesterday, today or tomorrow

I was about to finish Stefan Zweig's biography novel about Marie Antoinette before watching this movie. %100 director got inspiration from that novel.What a sad story. Young girl from Austria royal made marriage to cut hostility between Austria and France. Anyway every aspect was directly quotation from the book that I mentioned before. I suggest the watchers who want to see this movie, they need to read great novel of Stefan Zweig who was the best autobiographer of 20s Centuries novel name: Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman. She was really average woman,like we are:)