Marie-Antoinette in Film

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A review of Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, by Elena Maria Vidal. She did not care for the film...Neither do I.

http://teaattrianon.blogspot.com/2007/05/review-of-marie-antoinette-2006.html

This L'Evasion film is my old dream to watch, I found the trailer and some fan videos on Youtube. I really like the way they portray Louis and the tenderness among him and his family. The only thing I didn't like (very suprising ) that the trailer had a line referring to Louis' "jealousy" of Fersen... but I still hope that's only a trailer marketing trick and isn't really in the story.

But this Farewell My Queen film... I'm VERY disappointed. And is the novel author the same Chantal Thomas who wrote an essay about the pornographic (partly lesbian) pamphlets attacking on the Queen? How could she let it? This was my last hope. I'm very far from close-mindedness or homophoby but it's simply inaccurate. Why didn't they choose (for example) Maria Theresa's second daughter Christina and Joseph II's wife Isabella? Their "friendship" were so suspicious that even the Empress felt awkward, and it's a historical fact that Isabella hated her marriage with Joseph (she wrote it down very honestly). So there are lesbian royal stories, and hedonist stories and love stories and so on... is only Marie-Antoinette famous enough to get all this stories?

If they wanted a lesbian angle the Comtesse de Provence was famous for her infatuation with Madame de Gourbillon. Why do they have to make Marie-Antoinette the center of every fantasy?

Here's the official poster:
http://vivelareine.tumblr.com/post/17993748873

It's silly, really. The book is strong enough to stand on its own without the sapphic element, for heaven's sake. And I think Diane Kruger's performance is quite powerful without the overemphasis on Madame de Polignac. However, I would really have to see the film before drawing conclusions. The media likes to stir things up to get attention.