Marie Antoinette (2006 film)

Marie Antoinette is a 2006 historical drama film, written and directed by Sofia Coppola. It is based on the life of the Queen in the years leading up to the French Revolution. It won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. It was released in the United States on October 20, 2006, by Columbia Pictures.

As time passes, Marie Antoinette finds life at the court of Versailles stifling. Her husbands courtiers disdain her as a foreigner, and blame her for not producing an heir, although the fault really lies with her husband. The French court is rife with gossip, and Marie Antoinette consistently ruffles feathers by defying its ritualistic formality. Marie Antoinette also refuses to meet with Jeanne Bcu, Madame du Barry Asia Argento, the mistress of Louis XV. Over the years, Maria Theresa continues to write to her daughter, giving advice on how to impress and seduce the Dauphin. Unfortunately, Maries attempts to have sex with her husband fail and the marriage remains childless. Marie spends most of her time buying extravagant clothes and gambling. After a masquerade ball, Marie and Louis XVI return to find that the King has smallpox he orders du Barry to leave Versailles, and soon dies. Louis XVI is crowned King of France, with Marie as Queen.Marie Antoinettes brother, Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor Danny Huston comes to visit, counseling her against her constant parties advice that she finds easy to ignore. Joseph meets Louis XVI at the Royal Zoo and explains to him the mechanics of sexual intercourse in terms of keymaking, as one of the Kings favorite hobbies is locksmithing. Thereafter, the King and Marie Antoinette have sex for the first time, and on December 18, 1778, Marie Antoinette gives birth to a daughter, Princess Marie Thrse of France. As the baby princess grows up, Marie Antoinette spends much of her time at the Petit Trianon, a small chateau in the park of Versailles. It is also at this time that she begins an affair with Axel Fersen Jamie Dornan. As Frances financial crisis worsens, food shortages and riots increase. Marie Antoinettes image with her subjects has completely deteriorated by this point her luxurious lifestyle and seeming indifference to the struggles of the masses earn her the title Madame Dficit. ........

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