Award-winning director and screenwriter Sofia Coppola (Lost In Translation) brings a fresh interpretation of France's legendary teenage queen to the big screen.
At the age of 14, Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst) is betrothed to the future King Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman) and finds herself thrown into the dangerous and decadent world of Versailles.
Alone and without guidance, she is ill-prepared to be the kind of ruler whom the French populace desires and she soon begins to rebel against her new world steeped in conspiracy and scandal.
Her new husband's indifference leads her into a secret affair with alluring Swedish Count Fersen (Jamie Dornan) and her indiscretions are soon the talk of France.
Whether she is being idealised for her impeccable style or vilified for being unforgivably out of touch with her subjects, reaction to Marie Antoinette is always extreme. Yet, slowly, as she matures, she begins to find her way as a wife, mother and Queen - only to be tragically swept up in a bloody revolution that alters France forever.
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