Creators:
Deborah DavisComposer:
Guillaume RousselCast:
Emilia Schüle, Louis Cunningham, Marthe Keller, James Purefoy, Jack Archer, Jasmine Blackborow, Gaia Weiss, Crystal Shepherd-Cross, Caroline Piette (more)Episodes(8)
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The Slap (E01)
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Rival Queens (E02)
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Pick a Princess (E03)
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Queen of France (E04)
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Rebel Queen (E05)
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Deus ex machina (E06)
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The Ostrich Bitch (E07)
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Queen of Hearts (E08)
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Marie Antoinette is a story of a female rebel with a cause in late 18th Century France. Marie Antoinette begins her life at Versailles as a “fresh bouquet of wild flowers”, morphs into a teenage rebel and emerges as Queen of the Zeitgeist. When the very young Marie Antoinette is dispatched to Versailles to marry the Dauphin, she has no idea what she is letting herself in for. Her only duty as Dauphine is to consummate her marriage to Louis and deliver the next Bourbon heir. But this proves to be her greatest challenge when her awkward, teenage husband refuses to play ball. Louis would prefer to kill a hare than kiss his wife. First, she must make her hostile prince her friend. Without an heir, she is exposed to the enemies who line up to attack her from within the heart of the Royal Family. But they have started with the wrong girl. Like her mother, the Empress of Austria, Marie Antoinette is a fighter. She will impose her will on Versailles and recreate it in her own image! (Dazzler Media)
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Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) has always been a rococo treat for playwrights, writers, and filmmakers. The daughter of Marie Thérèse, who became the French queen and ended up on the guillotine? Who could resist? I'm really not worried that interest in romanticizing the biography of this queen will ever wane. If by chance it does, there are always parts of the story of Madame de Pompadour and Madame du Barry (the excellent Gaia Weiss from Vikings). The current series follows the birth of Versailles. Emilia Schüle in the lead role is an absolute darling, a great actress who has demonstrated her qualities, for example, in the Ku'damm saga. The set design is fairy tale-like, and the drama is written so that the modern viewer understands it emotionally. And that's about it. Anyone who enjoys anything from before the French Revolution can be satisfied; there's no need to fret over historical inaccuracies - although history itself writes the biggest twists. Did you think a black man at the court of Louis XVI was woke nonsense? Look up the biography of composer Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799). Films/series brimming with opulent splendor and libertine morality are a category unto themselves. Is the new series better or worse than previous contributions to the subgenre? It certainly holds its own and can boldly be placed alongside Farewell, My Queen (2012), Marie Antoinette (2006), and Marie Antoinette (1938).
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