Thursday 25 March 2010

Marie Antoinette

My favourite character in history was born in Viena in a cold afternoon of November in 1755. Raised by two governess under the strict education of Empress Marie Therese, which  mainly consists on good hygine and a regime for strengthen her body built; She soon became the Dauphine of France by marrying the eldest grandson of the King of France, Louis XVI. Under pressure for leading the way of conceiving a heir for the French throne, she was also criticised for her Austrian upbringing and her rebelious feelings and actions against Madame du Barry(the King´s mistress) and the establishment in the royal court. Soon lovers blessed her routinary lifestyle and an era of extravaganza that made her worldly famous, thanks to over the top jewels, gambling soirés and trims, began. Once the Queen of France, the revolutionary society upraise against her for frivolities like an infamous sentence: "Let them have cake!"("Qu`ils mangent de la brioche!") and her back to nature attitude after loosing her third child, when the Trianon was given to her as a lovely present from her King to seclude herself from the ordinary and fatal world. The 16th of October of 1815 Marie Antoinette Josephine Joanne de Hasburg - Lorraine lost her head, thanks to the French guillotine, after suffering the inexperience of two young lawyers and being declared guilty at court. With such an interesting life is no wonder that Sofia Coppola chose her intriguing biography to based her latest film, loaded with controversy and booed across cinemas internationally. To me a masterpiece was filmed, with masturbatory images and refinement that did not need help from a  good dialogue.