After all the positive reviews (and the fact that I'm usually impressed by Krieps' work), I was very much looking forward to this.
However, despite the cinematography and acting, I found very little "there, there". All the vignettes I suppose add up to a mood - perhaps deliberately echoing her life and role, which at that stage didn't really have much of a point - but it doesn't really amount to much else, in my view. It would be too harsh to suggest that it was actually boring, but it came close.
Others seem a bit disturbed by the deliberate anachronisms and historical inaccuracies, but Marie Antoinette proved that one can still be very entertaining in that mode - sadly not the case here.
Worth a look, but not really recommended, if you have other priorities.
However, despite the cinematography and acting, I found very little "there, there". All the vignettes I suppose add up to a mood - perhaps deliberately echoing her life and role, which at that stage didn't really have much of a point - but it doesn't really amount to much else, in my view. It would be too harsh to suggest that it was actually boring, but it came close.
Others seem a bit disturbed by the deliberate anachronisms and historical inaccuracies, but Marie Antoinette proved that one can still be very entertaining in that mode - sadly not the case here.
Worth a look, but not really recommended, if you have other priorities.