History brought alive

Rating: 8/10 (17 August 2007)

A brilliant way to explain the history of this era to those who would not normally pick up a history book. Coppola may not have gone for absolute historical accuracy, but who really knows exactly what it was like back then? Coppola creates a character that we can relate to. Whether that is accurate or not is not the point. Once we sympathise with Marie-Antoinette then we can enter her world and start to imagine what it might have been like in Versailles in the 1700s. Yes it would have been good to have seen what life was like for the peasants in France then, but that would be a different story. On an entirely different note, loved the fact that Coppola puts all those great neglected post-punk records from 1978-81 onto the big screen where they belonged all along.