Well, good soundtracks don’t always mean good movies….apparently….
Saw the flick this weekend and was not impressed. good job of directing and some great scene shots, but the adaptation was very lacking of substance outside the beauty of Versailles and the opulence of the time.
The songs seemed very forced into the plot - almost like she created scenes just to put poppy new songs over them. Who really wants 5 minutes of movie or her taking the carriage back to the palace after an all night of partying?
It is very disappointing as any type of historical biography of her and really dwells too much on her extravagance and lack of compassion for the people in her early years.
Perhaps there will be a sequel where they actually talk about how humanitarian she actually was in her later years and how her death was actually more of a result of her standing up for her royalist ideals and not for her excessiveness (as the movie suggests).
Apparently the Italians are still not too fond of the French….rent this one -