Antoinette movie

[montagnarde1793]

This movie is really going to suck. Muchly.

http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=384772

Apparently the People are reduced to the stereotypical "angry mob" so if the average viewer does not like barbie-pink!Antoinette, they'll have little choice in sympathies, because she and the rest of the Court will be the only human characters.

It's a lot easier for most people to sympathize with one person, even if she is the most annoying bimbo they have ever seen, than a "mob" with a good reason to be angry!

That said, from what I can tell, Liberation is treating this with irony, and seems to be pointing out that the subject matter is somewhat....irrelevant: big surprise there!
...at any rate, it's not a positive review, and I like the publication overall, so...

Comments

[lucius-artorius.livejournal.com]

I found the song from toto le heros! its the cutest little jazz song ever! yay for Charles Trenet!

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

OMSB, really?
...You're going to be singing it now, aren't you?

[polypragmosyne.livejournal.com]

When I first read it, I thought that the author was merely sparing her more poignant critics since he had liked her previous movies, and that because of that he constructed some kind of theorem in his own support. Then again, the news that this sympatetic ear is giving us aren't pretty... music flooding, rock thermidor!

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Maybe I misunderstood it; I thought the author was being sarcastic, but I suppose I could be wrong.

And speaking of wrong....rock thermidor is indeed wrong.

[polypragmosyne.livejournal.com]

It's hard to say- it was quite ambiguous...

Indeed rock thermidor sounds false- they're on different vibes altogether!

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

...And it doesn't get much clearer upon re-reading, either.

Agreed. They don't really go...

[polypragmosyne.livejournal.com]

Thermidor in some way is reaction, while rock is action ;)

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Ah...

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

My French teacher brought my History an magazine with an article on that movie today.

At least it's not coming out 'til November...

D-M

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

OMSB, really? What did it say?

November? I thought it was coming out in October...
And besides, how is that a good thing? It gives the media longer to hype it!

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

It said it was crap. Huzzah!

True, but it also gives us longer to prepare.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Yay! ...but in what way? In other words, what was specifically was crappy about it?

Prepare what, a frontal assault?

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I didn't read it. But he turned to me and said, "Looks like it's not a very good movie, huh?"

Or something like that.

OMSBICON! Who is it??

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Well, that's always good;)

*smirks* I'm sure we'll think of something.

It's Maxime and Eleonore from La Terreur et la Vertu. The line is the actual line he said at that moment....the scene is really quite sad, because just at that moment Le Bas and Augustin come downstairs and we never find out what he wanted to tell her.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

I like that article. I really do... Hehehe. >;D

Though... rock thermidor?! o.O

No. Just, no.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

So I was right, then! It is supposed to be ironic! I thought so...

I am scarred for life. I really don't want to know what they mean by that.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

I think we can call that a nice sample of French ironical criticising.

...it just makes no sense, even after re-reading. Rock Thermidor... It sounds like something Maxime would have REALLY failed to know how to sing.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Ah, I love it!

*sporfle* I'm sure not. Not that he knew how to sing anything. XD

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Precisely my point.... he's still a rockstar though XD

[josiana.livejournal.com]

Ewwww. I knew it. *gags*

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

*sympathizes* My brain!

[josiana.livejournal.com]

I sympathize. Still, I suppose you could go just to mock it. Rather like the Rocky Horror Picture Show, but with inaccurate costumes, bad accents, worse acting, and unattractive people.
Er...on second though, staying home and watching something else might be a better alternative.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I'll get a pirated copy and mock that; at least that way I won't be supporting it.

[josiana.livejournal.com]

Oh good. You are a credit to the republic. I was planning to go see it because of the costumes, but from what I can tell, they're pretty bad.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

*grins* I thank you, citoyenne. I must say, I wasn't aware that Converse existed in the 18th century;)