Subject: Don’t lose your head Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:02 am
Idea for a new discipline: Take the herstory of a famous event, then put back in the boring kings, political declarations and armies, without any mention of needlepoint or what the scullery maids were thinking. I even have a name for my new field of study: “history.” “Farewell, My Queen,” a look at the downfall of the Bourbon dynasty through the eyes of an irrelevant midlevel servant (Léa Seydoux) to Marie Antoinette (Diane Kruger), is resolute about its approach — which is to avoid almost all of the important stuff, such as why the king and queen are in trouble.
