Before you watch this with your kids or grandma, you might want to know that this documentary is PG-13. The film gives MANY intimate details of her not too terrific sex life with her husband, Louis XVI! Additionally, the French public took great pleasure in passing around various obscene engravings supposedly showing her having sex with MANY different people (something that has never been proved, by the way) and some were highly imaginative! I am not saying these shouldn't have been in the show--but you might want to think twice about showing it to some folks.
Like a typical PBS documentary, this one consists of nice narration, interviews with various experts, paintings and engravings (see above) and recreations by actors dressed as the various characters. And, like a typical PBS film, it's top quality--expertly directed and with nice music. Well worth seeing and giving you some insight into why this queen was eventually executed. Well done.
By the way, the film featured an interview with Simon Schama in which he said "...having her bedroom violated was like being raped...". I think he should have thought out this comment a bit better, as Marie Antoinette having peasants ransacking her bedroom was not at all good--but to compare it to sexual assault seemed a bit wrong.
Like a typical PBS documentary, this one consists of nice narration, interviews with various experts, paintings and engravings (see above) and recreations by actors dressed as the various characters. And, like a typical PBS film, it's top quality--expertly directed and with nice music. Well worth seeing and giving you some insight into why this queen was eventually executed. Well done.
By the way, the film featured an interview with Simon Schama in which he said "...having her bedroom violated was like being raped...". I think he should have thought out this comment a bit better, as Marie Antoinette having peasants ransacking her bedroom was not at all good--but to compare it to sexual assault seemed a bit wrong.