I saw it Friday morning and even though I'm usually a stickler for historical accuracy, I could like it and appreciate it. As for the music, both modern and 18th century music is used throughout. I thought the modern music mostly works where it is placed. This film doesn't pretend to be historically accurate totally. I found it lots of fun, but to get it all, you should know your history going in.
The costumes are far more accurate, than say, the 1938 version of Marie Antoinette or the 1922 silent Orphans of the Storm. Of course, everything is filtered through "what is attractive now the year the film was made" but the candy box colors for Versailles really works. Also we get to see a little of what MA's life was like at the Petit Trianon, which was Rousseau's vision of the rural pastoral, which I think, a film hasn't shown before. I just got "Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution" if you prefer pure history and the movie book of "Marie Antoinette", which is the script and pics from the film, not the "making of the film Marie Antoinette" Cindy Abel _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
