Farewell, My Queen

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.

Based on the best-selling novel by Chantal Thomas, the film stars Léa Seydoux as one of Marie’ s ladies-in-waiting, seemingly innocent but quietly working her way into her mistress’ s special favors, until history tosses her fate onto a decidedly different path.