film review
Marie Antoinette
Sofia Coppola scores a doomed adolescent queen to New Order and permits her to eat her cake in peace. Critics loathed the anachronism, which was precisely the point: a child playing dress-up inside a gilded abattoir built expressly for her.
what it left me with
One can be complicit and a victim in the same breath. History is seldom as tidy as the guillotine would like it to be.
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