Strong candidate for The Worst Movie I have EVER seen!

Rating: 1/10 (24 December 2016)

If you are a student of history at all, skip this movie! If you are an American intrigued with the interplay and influence of the American revolution on the French Revolution, skip this movie! It is an insult to anyone that has any regard for the truth. The amount of historical content in this vapid exercise of costume and frivolity can be summed up in a short paragraph, or a short scene. And Sophia Cuppola (writer/director), I see that your net worth is estimated at 20 million. I think you may be part of the problem. Do you have any concept what it is like to be poor? Why didn't you include in the movie any content about the the obscene contrast between the wealth of the French nobility at the expense of the rest of the population (the 99.99% in Bernie's parlance)? Sophia, you successfully created a movie that captured a lot of teenage eyes, ears, and brains. It is a travesty that you completely wasted an opportunity to show that the significance of Marie Antoinette's life was that she typified the symbolic and literal end of the long overdue death of the Monarchy and the disparate distribution of wealth that made it possible (a concept that is 100% relevant today)! You got one half of the equation, the obscene wealth and frivolity of the court. You completely missed the other half, the desperate poverty (many of them literally starving) of those paying for the excesses of the ruling class. So to put it in Charles Dickens terms, the movie is "The Tale of ONE City". By the way, the perfunctory ending that fails to show that Marie and her King were executed is ridiculous! Sophia, I do hope you do better next time.