NB "L'Autrichienne" belongs to the spate of movies which were made to commemorate the bicentennial of the French revolution. His style was more that of a journalist and a playwright than that of a professional historian. Andr Castelot is a celebrated French historian :his books about the queen. Andr Castelot wrote a decent biography of Marie Antoinette. But the main asset of the movie is a use of a German actress as the lead.Neither Michèle Morgan nor Jane Seymour or Norma Shearer was that much credible as Austrian women. The people of France hated Marie -Antoinette, lAutrichienne (that Austrian. They said that her portrait was not neutral,that the queen was then a pitiful sick desperate woman and that her past was almost completely forgotten. André Castelot is a celebrated French historian :his books about the queen are authoritative.However,there was no general agreement about the movie:some people complain about the view of the queen the scenarists gave. The people of France hated Marie -Antoinette, "l'Autrichienne" (that Austrian woman).There were lots of books and movies about her ,more than about her husband Louis the Sixteenth).This one focuses on the last days of the queen ,her iniquitous trial -evidences were found in Vienna archives ,but at the time,there was none- and her death on the guillotine.
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