Kirsten Dunst’s new movie about French queen Marie Antoinette has been blasted by historians as “frightful”.
The Sofia Coppola directed biopic about the 18th Century monarch, which was booed by critics at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, has been attacked by France's Marie Antoinette Association as factually inaccurate.
"I've seen the trailer for the film on the internet. It is a fright,” the association's president Michele Lorin says. “We've spent years trying to convince people that the queen was not just a libertine who told the starving to eat cake. What do you see on the trailer? You see Marie Antoinette eating cake. You see her lying naked on a chaise longue. I fear the film is going to set us back many years."
But Dunst says the movie isn’t intended to be taken too seriously.
"It's kind of like a history of feelings rather than a history of facts,” she says. So don't expect a masterpiece theatre, educational Marie Antoinette biopic."
