Fresh
Jacquot has chosen wisely in casting Lea Seydoux in the key role of Sidonie, whose luminous but watchful eyes suggest a soul wise beyond her years.
Bruce Demara, Toronto Star
Overview
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
Director and cast
- Benoît Jacquot Director
- Léa Seydoux as Agathe-Sidonie Laborde
- Diane Kruger as Marie Antoinette
- Virginie Ledoyen as Gabrielle de Polignac
- Xavier Beauvois as Louis XVI
- Noémie Lvovsky as Henriette Genest dite Madame Campan
- Julie-Marie Parmentier as Honorine
- Michel Robin Cast
- Lolita Chammah Cast
- Vladimir Consigny Cast
- Dominique Reymond Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
93%
Tomatometer
Fresh
"Farewell, My Queen" is a layer cake of royal pleasures, rote protocols and revolutionary politics. For skeptics who thought this story had grown stale, let them eat their words.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fresh
The details of the plot are unimportant: that is the main point made by the skillful director, Benoit Jacquot. It is the slowness with which they realize what is happening that fascinates.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
Fresh
Although it was shot at Versailles, and its actors are dressed to the 18th-century nines, Farewell, My Queen has a loose, reportorial intimacy about it.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
As we follow her through the monarchy's abrupt collapse, "Farewell, My Queen" gives us intimate, unflaggingly energetic history as seen from the servants' quarters.
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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