Synopsis
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
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Cast
- Léa SeydouxAgathe-Sidonie Laborde
- Diane KrugerMarie Antoinette
- Virginie LedoyenLa duchesse Gabrielle de Polignac
- Noémie LvovskyHenriette Genest dite Madame Campan
- Xavier BeauvoisLe roi Louis XVI
- Michel RobinJacob-Nicolas Moreau
- Julie-Marie ParmentierLa servante Honorine Aubert
- Lolita ChammahLa domestique Louison
- Marthe CaufmanLa domestique Alice
- Vladimir ConsignyRené dit Paolo
Recommendations
- 90
The New York Times
Benoît Jacquot's tense, absorbing, pleasurably original look at three days in the life and lies of a doomed monarch. - 88
Slant Magazine
Control is the operative element in Benoît Jacquot's work, with the main caveat being that when someone has it, someone else does not. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Historical drama set in the early days of the French revolution is intelligent Euro eye candy at its most lavish. - 75
The A.V. Club
Working from Chantal Thomas' novel, Jacquot doesn't entirely scrape the gloss off this love triangle, which plays neither as a florid bodice-ripper nor as emotionally complex as it might have been. It stays on the surface, but at least that surface is gorgeous. - 60
Time Out
Once the rote plot takes over - the tension brought on by the film's you-are-there verisimilitude quickly devolves into soapily overwrought theatrics. - 60
Village Voice
The pleasure of Jacquot's film is in watching various strains of discreet, heated, and deluded passionate attachment performed. - 60
Movieline
The picture coasts along quite nicely on the strength of its contemplative sensuality, its macaron colors, and the exquisite beauty of its three chief actresses, Léa Seydoux, Virginie Ledoyen and Diane Kruger. Oh, and there's nudity in it too, not to mention lesbian undertones – or are they overtones? - 50
Variety
A well-observed but emotionally muted costume drama that might well have been titled "My Week With Marie Antoinette."
