The film starts when young Antoinette, princess in Austria is arranged to be married with the future King of France and sent away from her home to a new country, when she's just 14 years old. You can see her fear of the unknown, her innocence and her wish to be accepted and it even makes you feel a bit sorry for her. Poor little rich girl.

The dolphine (that is: princess who will become queen) must adapt herself to the unfamiliar court of Versailles, full of strangers, and tries her best to complete the only task she seems to have: give birth to the next heir to the throne of France. Her husband, non-experienced Louis XVI, doesn't seem to have the same thing in mind, so their marriage comes out as a complete failure for several years.

The scenes in Versailles transmit perfectly the choking sensation of a teenager unable to make everyone happy, isolated from everyone else and lost in a world of magnificent luxury she hasn't even asked for.

So, the young lady finds comfort in continuous parties, balls and shopping sprees, spending the royal fortune in clothes, shoes, cakes, jewels or hairdressing. I must say this scenes were awesome: the shoes (by Manolo Blahnik, always a pleasure) and the dresses (even made Milena Canonero an Oscar Winner) were beautiful and carefully made, even the cakes (Ladureé) reflected the Versailles spirit of greatness: "if we do it, we do it in a big way".

Great scene! [Listening to "I want candy" - Bow Wow Wow]

But once the King dies and she becomes Queen of France, things seem to change between Louis and her; they apparently fall in love and, finally, Marie Antoinette gets pregnant and has her first baby daughter. Not what France expected at all, but what she had been waiting for many years. Things start to work out well for her now...

Then, the Queen leaves the court of Versailles and moves to her country palace: Le Petit Trianon. Here it's all more relaxed, the scenery (French countryside) is way more natural, the dresses much lighter and she seems to get a bit of the freedom she had been taken away for so long. Even the scenes get a warmer and familiar feeling the viewer can percieve.

Here, surrounded by her close friends and feeling free, Marie Antoinette finds happiness... and Count Fersen, a handsome young man from the Swedish Army, who drives her into the craziness of infidelity and secret love meetings.

But when Fersen goes away and Marie Antoinette goes back to Versailles, the darker spirit of her life is shown: everything gets melancholic and depressing. Her love interest is gone forever, she loses her third child and France's been spent into debt (partly, her fault), making everyone unhappy with the royalty and particularly with her, spreading all over the country a mean image of the queen.

This is when we get to the decadence of the Queen; and also when we see her more mature and motherly aspect. Marie Antoinette is no longer a scared teenager or a young girl blinded because of a forbidden love: she is a mother and she is the Queen of France. Despite all the growing problems in her nation, threatening her and her family, she remains next to her husband no matter what would happen next.

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I hope you enjoyed it! Credit to the people who made this awesome videos, and to the website I -really can't remember, sorry!- from where I took the images. xxx