...a sumptuous period drama on the last hours of Marie Antoinette in the French Revolution...

| Aug 18, 2022

[Farewell, My Queen has] impeccable acting, a witty script, luxurious production values, and mesmerizing performances from the female leads.

| May 24, 2022

It's expertly crafted, riveting, thrilling and heartbreaking. And it understands why we become so invested in things like our current presidential election. It understands that the political is personal.

| Mar 10, 2021

Works both for its intelligent spin on a familiar story and for its exceptional production values that turn even the most ominous scene into a beautiful scene to behold.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

A heady concoction of historical intrigue, with a tart hint of salaciousness that drains away the generally unrealistic nature of supposedly authentic reenactments.

| Jul 25, 2019

Diane Kruger does a spectacular job as a flighty, self-indulgent Marie Antoinette.

| Mar 4, 2019

Almost as soon as the queen (played, fittingly, by Germanic actress Diane Kruger) appears, the screen sizzles.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 27, 2018

It might be that Marie still waits for a true incarnation, but Jacquot's pushing her beyond likeability is refreshing.

| Apr 12, 2018

"Farewell, My Queen," set in four days in 1789, takes place in the palace at Versailles, and the film carries an unusual sense of light and texture.

| Feb 22, 2018

We share a palace insider's perspective as Marie-Antoinette lives her last days at Versailles, prior to her arrest and eventual appointment with "Madame Guillotine." It's. like Upstairs Downstairs at Versailles.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 3, 2017

Go see period historical drama at its best and live within the walls of a time of extraordinary luxury and danger.

| Sep 18, 2017

Farewell, My Queen is a knife-edge drama that steadily builds tension that at times becomes as unbearably tense as the relationship between the three leading ladies.

| Feb 7, 2014

Sidonie is a character who literally eavesdrops on history, becoming the audience's first-person yet second-hand source for such significant events as the storming of the Bastille...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 24, 2014

His portrait loses some of its eerie power through the ugly twist at the film's conclusion, but she remains a fascinating enigma, and touchingly human.

| Nov 5, 2013

Like the Americans, the French are infatuated with their history. They also love long close-ups of beautiful women in period costume. These elements combine in this painfully pretty period chamber piece.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 28, 2013

It is the life of Versailles that Jacquot captures: all the petty politics, positioning and preening. And that is simply a glorious sight to see.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 6, 2013

While it does not hang together as a whole, Farewell, My Queen is still an interesting and engaging film that should be overall commended for what it does achieve.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 6, 2013

It's kind of the Rosencrantz and Gulidenstern Are Dead approach to history, observing it from the perspective of a "minor character", and it works ... it's a fascinating glimpse of a moment in history from, essentially, a safe bystander.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 5, 2013

A strangely mixed film, sliding from intimate scenes of royal indolence to muted panic in candlelit corridors, a distinct undercurrent of detached uncertainty always present in both story and style.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 3, 2013

A mood of melancholy and the film is beautifully lit and shot. But there's something missing in the telling and its often disjointed structure mitigates against the emotional satisfaction we are seeking

| Jun 1, 2013