Perhaps Anglo-Saxon directors should be prohibited from entering Versailles!
Because, no, everything is not allowed in a historical fiction.
Canal+'s new original creation,
Marie-Antoinette
, shows it again, seven years after the
Versailles
series in which the Sun King was presented as a kind of mafia boss... This time, even if it's not more of a work by the British Simon Mirren (
Criminal Minds
) and David Wolstencroft (
MI5
), but a creation by screenwriter from across the Channel Deborah Davis, a priori more focused on history (
La Favorite
), the result is no less appalling.
In this Canal+ production (pre-sold to the BBC), Marie-Antoinette, whom we follow from her marriage to the Dauphin until the birth of their first child, is transformed into a feminist activist before her time.
The whole stretches over eight long episodes, without any breath, in an avalanche of scenes that are most often vulgar, totally out of context and sometimes...
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