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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Black & White • Closed-captioned • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 26 August, 1938 DVD Release : 10 October, 2006 |
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Marie Antoinette description The lavish, overstuffed house style of MGM in the 1930s gets a fluffy showcase in Marie Antoinette, a preposterous epic about the pampered Queen. One of MGM's longtime queens, Norma Shearer (who had been married to head of production/wonder boy Irving Thalberg until his death in 1936), plays the young Austrian girl imported to marry the man who would become Louis XVI of France. The film covers Marie's girly youth at court, through an affair with suave Tyrone Power (then in his early, dewy prime) and finally to the dark days of the Revolution. Like Sofia Coppola's 2006 version of the Queen's life, this film emphasizes glitz, and leaves the Royals mostly innocent of blame for what happens to the starving peasants. Unlike the Coppola picture, this one takes Marie and diffident husband Louis (Robert Morley, his film debut) through their imprisonment and all the way to the guillotine. The parade of enormous sets and opulent gowns contributes to the general sense of stodginess, even if one might pause to note the rather continental attitude toward Marie's extramarital needs. John Barrymore plays the declining Louis XV, but it's the childlike Morley that steals the show. Shearer's glamorous star turn might leave some viewers puzzled as to her appeal, although the very ordinariness of her personality actually works in concert with Marie's out-of-her-depth character. The project had been a pet of Thalberg's, and MGM went ahead with the film after his death, but it marked the end of Shearer's period of major stardom. The opposite of this film's highbrow literary approach can be found in Josef von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress, with Marlene Dietrich, a delirious and cinematic treatment of a Queen abroad. (This DVD includes overture and entr'acte music.) --Robert Horton |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | BEAUTIFUL MOVIE - EXQUISITE PRINT ! ! ! |
| This is one of those films that you either love or loath - I've loved for years, and never saw such a beautiful print. The detail (and this lavish movie is all detail) has never been as visible. It's truly breathtaking. PLUS; There's the Overture, Intermission, and Exit music! As many times as I've seen MARIE ANTOINETTE, I'd never heard that music - and it is a terrific treat (The intermission music even has a song set to the love theme - a "heavenly chorus" with a tenor!).
This is an unbearably romantic and sentimental re-telling of the tragic queen. It IS NOT HISTORY - if you want history, read one of the many superb biographies. I've always thought it to be Shearer's finest preformance - EVER. It is incredibly detailed and heartfelt (if not subtle). WELL DONE NORMA! Barrymore's small roll is the best of his later work. Morley is simply superb. The photography GLOWS! DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY ON THE COPPOLA TRASH - ABYSMAL OFFAL! This treasure is MGM at it's grandest and most lavish - We'll NEVER see anything like it again. |
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