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Rating: 2/10 (23 February 2007)

I can't tell you how disappointing this film is. The acting is horrible and the casting ,excluding Miss Dunst, is worse. If Madame Du Barry, for instance had been depicted the way she actually was instead in a stereotypical totally predictable way for a woman of her background the relationship would have been so much more interesting. Madame Du Barry was considered ravishingly beautiful. She had impeccable manners and taste as she had been primed as the royal mistress for years by those who had plans to gain from her position. Therefore, because of her beauty, manners, and taste she was all the more hated by those at court because her background did not reconcile with how she appeared. She never treated people unkindly or ungraciously as depicted except for one off handed comment she made about Marie Antoinette being a "red headed child." In contrast the film depicted her in the most brash and vulgar way as well as being totally unattractive. She was a courtesan but she was a high class courtesan. The music was also dissonant with the setting and time and proved jolting if not totally an anachronism. I am all for making history relevant but not for rewriting it. I could go on but you get the gist.