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Farewell, My Queen is a french film of genre Drama directed by Benoît Jacquot released in USA on 13 july 2012 with Diane Kruger

Farewell, My Queen (2012)

Les Adieux à la reine

Farewell, My Queen
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Released in USA 13 july 2012
Length 1h40
Directed by
OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Biography,    Historical
Rating61% 3.0953253.0953253.0953253.0953253.095325

Farewell, My Queen (French: Les Adieux à la reine) is a 2012 French drama film directed by Benoît Jacquot and based on the novel of the same name by Chantal Thomas, who won the Prix Femina in 2002. It gives a fictional account of the last days of Marie Antoinette in power seen through the eyes of Sidonie Laborde, a young servant who reads aloud to the queen. The film stars Diane Kruger as the Queen, Léa Seydoux, and Virginie Ledoyen.

It opened the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012 and has subsequently been screened at other festivals. Its release date was 21 March 2012 in France.

Synopsis

In 1789, on the eve of the French Revolution, the court at the Palace of Versailles still live their routines, relatively unconcerned by the increasing turmoil in Paris a mere twenty miles away. The routines are seen through the eyes of the young Sidonie Laborde, who serves Queen Marie Antoinette.

Actors

Diane Kruger

(Marie Antoinette)Léa Seydoux

(Agathe-Sidonie Laborde)Virginie Ledoyen

(La duchesse Gabrielle de Polignac)Xavier Beauvois

(Le roi Louis XVI)Noémie Lvovsky

(Henriette Genest dite Madame Campan)
And :
Lolita Chammah
Dominique Reymond
Julie-Marie Parmentier
Anne Benoît
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