A visually dazzling as it subtle and serious. This is an excellent movie.

Rating: 10/10 (22 October 2006)

Marie Antoinette is more subtle than the reviews and board commentary would have you believe. This is less of a teleplay than people are used to where themes and characterization are hammered home with a sledge. In fact, this is one movie where costumes have a thematic value. The constraint of corsets and elaborate dress parallel Marie's personal restrictedness. When she becomes queen, she has simpler, more comfortable clothes made for her which she wears in a place where she and her friends can be free of regulations of life at court, where she is as stifled in some ways as a convict in prison stripes. As in music or painting much is conveyed here without words. This movie is so visual in fact you should see it on a theater screen rather than wait for the DVD.