Farewell, My Queen (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: January 15, 2013
- Originally Released: 2012
- Label: Cohen Media Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Diane Kruger, Virginie Ledoyen, Léa Seydoux, Xavier Beauvois & Noémie Lvovsky | |
| Directed by | Benoît Jacquot | |
| Screenwriting by | Benoît Jacquot & Gilles Taurant | |
| Composition by | Bruno Coulais | |
| Director of Photography: | Romain Winding & Francois-Xavier Bazin |
Entertainment Reviews:
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FAREWELL, MY QUEEN offers an intoxicating opportunity to eavesdrop on history, to be a fly on the wall at the great palace at Versailles as an old order starts its slow-motion collapse into the dustbin of history.
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/4 --
The foreboding and chaos contrast neatly with the lavish costumes and sets.
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Washington Post
Rating: 3/4 --
Although it was shot at Versailles, and its actors are dressed to the 18th-century nines, Farewell, My Queen has a loose, reportorial intimacy about it.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Rating: 3/4 --
We know what will happen, of course, but Jacquot still manages to create tension, as well as a semi-soap opera, among the let-them-cake-eaters of post-Enlightenment France.
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Newsday
[A] tense, absorbing, pleasurably original look at three days in the life and lies of a doomed monarch...
New York Times
A heady concoction of historical intrigue, with a tart hint of salaciousness that drains away the generally unrealistic nature of supposedly authentic reenactments.
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IONCINEMA.com
Diane Kruger's queen, a mature beauty mourning the loss of her youth, is a vivid portrait of willfulness, childishness and genuine neediness. And the fabric of the production is elegant...
Wall Street Journal
Product Description:
Director Benoît Jacquot adapted Chantal Thomas' bestselling novel examining the genesis of the French Revolution as witnessed from the perspective of the servants closest to Marie Antoinette. July 1789: Versailles. As the people of France rise up against King Louie XVI (Xavier Beauvois), the frightened sovereigns begin plotting their escape. Sidonie Laborde (Léa Seydoux) is the Queen's reader, and as such enjoys the many lavish privileges of being in the monarch's entourage. She sees herself as an extended member of the royal family, so when Marie Antoinette (Diane Kruger) requests that Sidonie don the Queen's clothing and flee in her carriage, the naïve servant views it as a tremendous honor. Meanwhile, the Queen herself plots to escape the palace under the cover of darkness, leaving her most loyal servant at the mercy of the raging mob.
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