Farewell, My Queen
Original Title
Les Adieux à la Reine- Director: Benoît Jacquot
- Writer: Benoît Jacquot; Gilles Taurand
- Producer: Jean-Pierre Guérin; Kristina Larsen
CGiii Comment
Great costumes, fantastic wigs...
Lousy story and pedestrian direction.
The result: an attractive bore of a film...and, not even a beheading in sight.
Such an anti-climax.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
In July 1789, the French Revolution is rumbling. Far from the turmoil, at the Château de Versailles, King Louis XVI, Queen Marie-Antoinette and their courtiers keep on living their usual carefree lives. But when the news of the storming of the Bastille reaches them, panic sets in and most of the aristocrats and their servants desert the sinking ship, leaving the Royal Family practically alone. Which is not the case of Sidonie Laborde, the Queen's reader, a young woman, entirely devoted to her mistress; she will not give her up under any circumstances. What Sidonie does not know yet is that these are the last three days she will spend in the company of her beloved Queen...
Cast & Characters
Diane Kruger as Marie Antoinette;
Lea Seydoux as Sidonie Laborde;
Virginie Ledoyen as Gabrielle de Polignac;
Xavier Beauvois as Louis XVI;
Noemie Lvovsky as Mme Campan;
Vladimir Consigny;
Julie-Marie Parmentier;
Michel Robin;
Gregory Gadebois as Le Comte de Provence;
Lolita Chammah