FAREWELL, MY QUEEN

Starring: Diane Kruger, Virginie Ledoyen, Noemie Lvovsky

Directed By: Benoit Jacquot

Run Time: 100 min

Language: French with subtitles

Rating: R

“Farewell, My Queen” brilliantly captures the nobility, passion, occasional glimpses of debauchery, and ultimate chaos that engulfed the court of Marie Antoinette in the final days before the French Revolution. The film stars the beautiful Diane Kruger as the Queen and seductive  Léa Seydoux as one of her ladies-in-waiting, seemingly innocent but quietly working her way into her mistress's special favors.  Photographed in and around the actual palace at Versailles, the action moves effortlessly from gilded drawing rooms to servants’ quarters. This is a period film at once accurate and sumptuous in its visual details, and modern in its emotions.“Tense, absorbing, pleasurably original.”

      -The New York Times