bored by boredom

Rating: 4/10 (12 November 2006)

This movie had so much potential. It started well with the changeover from a princess of Austria to a future queen of France and showing us her intimidated perspective as she's escorted into Versailles. And the elaborate -- and ridiculous -- rituals of dressing and undressing. But then it goes nowhere.
I was bored by the boredom of it all. The movie was pointless, the characters never developed, we never understood the relationship of MA and Louis, or how her friendships developed. If the point was the belated consummation of the marriage which happened I think two-thirds through the movie, why not end it there instead of fast-forwarding through the last few years of her life? The cinematography and costuming were great, the rest not so much.