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Three queens.(Film)(Marie Antoinette: The Journey)(Movie review)

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| March 01, 2007 | McDonald, Neil | COPYRIGHT 2007 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A FILM ABOUT Marie Antoinette that stops short of the Revolution and leaves out the Diamond Necklace Affair. Impossible! Yet that is what writer-director Sofia Coppola has done in the first American film about the tragic queen since the 1938 MGM biopic. This new Marie Antoinette begins with her marriage at fourteen to the heir to the throne of France--the Dauphin Louis August--and concludes with the mob marching to Versailles and taking the royal family back to Paris. Although there are suggestions of troubles outside the palace the film confines the viewer to Marie Antoinette's world of Versailles and later Le Petit Trianon--the country house in the palace grounds the ...

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