![]() I directed them in a way that they were experiencing those events for the first and last time.īT: How did you conjure the authenticity of the performances? Were the actors kept in the dark about their characters’ futures?īJ: It was very important for me to keep the actors and actresses from knowing exactly what is happening. The actors and their character portrayals were essential in following through with this principle. You could see what was happening and experience it simultaneously so that it would not come across as a re-creation of the events. How did you go about developing this style for your film?īJ: For me, this was an absolutely essential part for shooting this film. ![]() From beginning through the very end, we view from her perspective in this environment of catastrophe and panic and experience the feelings and emotions heightened by this.īT: Farewell, My Queen has a distinct style that seems to transport the audience to this time period. In this case the young woman, who is the reader and is actually an older character in the book. I wanted to show this restrictive time period and setting through the perspective of one particular character. Diane Kruger’s gives her best performance to date as the ill-fated Queen and Virginie Ledoyen is the Queen’s special friend Gabrielle de Polignac.īijan Tehrani: What motivated you to pick up Chantal Thomas’s book, Farewell, My Queen for making your latest film?īenoit Jacquot: What really interested me is the fact that it takes place in a very concentrated period of time and in a very specific place. With the action moving effortlessly from the gilded drawing rooms of the nobles to the back quarters of those who serve them, this is a period film at once accurate and sumptuous in its visual details and modern in its emotions. Farewell, My Queen marks the return of acclaimed director Benoît Jacquot (A Single Girl, Seventh Heaven, Sade, Deep in the Woods,) and brilliantly captures the passions, debauchery, occasional glimpses of nobility and ultimately the chaos that engulfed the court of Marie Antoinette in the final days before the full-scale outbreak of the Revolution.īased on the best-selling novel by Chantal Thomas, the film stars Léa Seydoux as one of Marie’s ladies-in-waiting, seemingly an innocent but quietly working her way into her mistress’s special favors, until history tosses her fate onto a decidedly different path. ![]()
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