Maybe Anglo-Saxon directors should be banned from Versailles. Because, no, not everything is allowed in historical fiction. Canal+’s new original creation, Marie Antoinette shows it again seven years after the series Versailles in which the Sun King was presented as a peculiar mafia boss… This time, even if it is no longer the work of Britain’s Simon Mirren (Criminal thoughts) and David Wolstencroft (MI5:), but the work of a screenwriter from across the spectrum, Deborah Davis, who is a priori more focused on the story (Favorite), the result is no less terrible.
In this Canal+ production (pre-sold to the BBC), Marie-Antoinette, who we follow from her marriage to the Dauphin to the birth of their first child, transforms into a feminist activist ahead of her time. The whole thing stretches out over eight long episodes, without breathing, in a barrage of scenes that are mostly vulgar, completely out of context and sometimes…
Source: Le Figaro
