FAREWELL MY QUEEN topples at the box office

The French Film FAREWELL MY QUEEN by Director Benoit Jacquot is a deadly bore despite being set against one of the most turbulent revolutions in history.  The movie begins in July 1774, the year King Louis XVI ascended the throne amidst the stirrings of the French people who were starving while Royalty  lived a very opulent life-style.  Diane Kruger plays Queen Marie Antoinette whose lovely head is going to roll.  The movie is shown from the vantage of a young and pretty maid to the Queen, Sodine, whose responsibilities include reading to her majesty.  Kruger is stunning as are the sets and her love interest, the Duchess Gabrielle de Poignac.  Yolande Gabrielle whom the Queen befriended at court was bestowed wealth and titles for her & her husband.  Much ado, ho hum, is made of her lust for the exquisite Gabrielle which she confides to her young and adoring reader, Sodine.  As violent unrest surmounts most of the inhabitants of Versaille flee like rats.  The Queen asks Sodine to switch her servants garb with the gown of Gabrielle to insure the Gabrielle would be spared should their carriage be overtaken in their escape.  Sodine willingly obliges as she says she was the reader to the Queen but now having left "she is nothing."  There is nothing of interest here unless beautiful women and settings suffice.  I'd rather eat cake.