The famous sentence attributed to Louis the Fifteenth was reportedly Madame De Pompadour's "after US ,the deluge ";Since it's been widely used by the French,when they do not care about what may happen in the future
The deluge has come;in 1792, after the Tuileries Insurrection of 10 August 1792,followed by the birth of the first French
Republic;it was to last till 1799 with Napoleon 's coup d'Etat ;
The film depicts the last days of the royal couple in the Temple's Tower which was the property of the comte de Provence , the king's brother then in exile(later Louis the Eighteenth after the fall of Napoleon .)
For Guillaume Canet ,one of the most famous current French actors,it was an act of self-renewal ;and he manages quite well in his portrayal : his king is gauche, irresolute and he was not only a clockmaker ,but also an educated person,who would teach his son in prison
Mélanie Laurent's Marie-Antoinette is just like the history books depicts her :brave , proud, arrogant ; however the scene when she beats her husband is probably invented from start to finish ; during her trial,she was courageous but declared she was the king's wife and thus had to follow him in what he did .
Like Louis XVI's beating , the écrouelles (scrofula) prank is hardly credible ;this practice "I touch you, God heals you" was phased out during the Sun King's reign ; and the populace did not enter the prison to bring "home " Princess of Lamballe's head ;actually Marie-Antoinette saw the head on a pike through a window during the "massacres de Septembre "
The atmosphere ,on the other hand,is well depicted ; the hope against hope during the king's trial makes sense :only 366 députés out of 721 voted "death ";although not historically accurate at all ,the meeting with the executioner is a real good idea :the depiction of the ride to the guillotine ,depicted in lavish details ,was ,in every sense of the term,a SHOW ;they did the same for the queen nine months later .
Robespierre fleetingly appears in the last scene, punctuated with gloomy drum rolls .
Of the six prisoners,only Marie-Thérèse (Mousseline) ,the daughter ,was released unharmed ;the worst fate of all was the young son's , who was almost walled up alive,without light and heat ,and died of TB . His escape is pure legend ,the science proved it.
