This is actually a great likeness on more levels, because a "bad" side to the Cottagecore movement is how many of us dream of having a "simple peasant life" without really thinking about all the work behind it. A small cottage with a garden sounds lovely, but you need to tend to it all. A garden needs to be tended to, animals need to be fed, a house needs to be kept whole and clean. None of it is a simple life, but we like to pretend it could be, much like Marie enjoys her Petit Trianon without having any duty to take care of it, only enjoying what that life offers her.
This scene is so idealic. It really does embody what was written about her time at La Petit Triannon. Marie was completely sheltered from the real world. She had no idea what the true pastoral life really was. She had no idea how all around the walls of Versailles, people, children, we're starving. She thought that this was how the country peasants lived simply because the staff were paid by the king to make it so. The animal enclosures were kept well away from the house so she and the children didn't smell filth. The sheep, goats and chickens allowed to wander were bathed in perfume and staff followed them to quickly clean up their droppings and urine. The eggs being washed before she collected them is true, and all of the produce she picked were rinsed clean of dirt. She did milk cows and goats for fun, but only after the staff carefully washed the animal and perfumed them and led them far away from the barn. Since she had been an Archduchess before her arrival to France at 14, and cloistered from the real world after that, she had no idea that this wasn't how the real world lived...until it was far too late. Her story is incredibly tragic.
So true. Come to really think of it, great injustice was meted out by singling out these two young royals for punishment for the crimes of their kins n predecessors. Sad really. Even as a parallel we can take ourselves as an example. We the ppl who live in better parts of our cities hardly ever see the difficulties n hardships of the lesser privilidged even today, the age of social media n exposure so much so that we fantacise romanticism in the country life. Y else do u think we go to the villages in our vacations? Even the concept of farms n retreats are a modern equivalence of what Marie created in her backyard n thought the village life was so much better, easy n peaceful. I am ashamed of myself after seeing this.
She isn't as naive as you make her out to be. Nor was she completely sheltered from the real world. Her mother the Empress Marie Teresa made sure of that. She interacted with those outside her social class despite being an archduchess while growing up in Austria. She was also keenly aware of the people starving in France as a result of famine. But it was not her duty to be politically involved. Rather it was to produce heirs to the throne of France. That was the duty of Louis XVI and he failed miserably. The village was meant to be an escape from the stifling court protocols of Versailles and an educational experience for her young children. I highly doubt the exaggerations you mentioned were true as they sound like the libels published during the time. After all, it is well documented that the nobles would simply relieve themselves in the corridors at Versailles and the place stunk so bad that the gardens couldn't mask the smell. Odd Marie Antoinette would be so concerned with the smell of filth when their primary residence never did quite solve that problem.
I am in Versailles now and feeling that exactly, though I should come back next season to feel the spring breeze and the morning calm in the misty air in the summer when the trianon is at its best.
This is a perfect example of the fantasy world she decided to build for herself. It's beautiful and intoxicating...until you step outside the palace walls.
The Petit Trianon and the village was her escape from the stifling court of Versailles. Often forgotten is the downfall of the monarchy had many players involved. Louis XVI's own brother, cousin and aunts actively worked against them.
@Ludwig Grundberg this "woman were hated throughout history" meme needs to die already. How the fuck was she hated for being a woman and not exclusively for being nobility and Austrian? Third wave feminism was a complete mistake.
@@Ζήνων-ζ1ι because they thought it was her fault that it took so long to produce a male. In reality the gender is determined by the sperm, so it is the man's fault if it is a girl.
@@strugglingcollegestudent stop with your stpidity! it is not anyone's fault! he isn't in control then any woman! so it's nobody faults if it was a girl, also you were so uneducated the egg choose the sperm that can enter so based on ur stpd logic women still at fault sincel they picked which sperm! if you are stpd just shut up! it's not that hard
@@strugglingcollegestudent and Marie Antoinette had a male heir just on the 2nd pregnancy, so no she was never shamed for being unable to gave birth to male! she was shamed because she didn't get pregnant for 7 years since her husband had asexual tendency or something until Marie's brother talked to them and they started having offspring, uneducated sht up Sophia and read some book.
That was intentional. If you notice Marie is the only one that sounds "out of place" on purpose- she was Austrian and would have sounded odd to the French. They chose to make that point specifically.
She looks like she's about 3. I'm guessing it was too hard to get her to say things in English lol. Or like someone else said, It's to make MA be out of place.
@You Toobe nope. I am correct In 2006, Marie Antoinette, directed by Sofia Coppola, was released. Marie-Thérèse was played by two different child actresses. At age two, she was played by Lauriane Mascaro, and at age six she was played by Florrie Betts. Kirsten Dunst starred as her mother, Marie Antoinette.
I personally believe that this was Marie-Antoinette's best part in her life. It was after the birth of her sons, so her status as queen as unchallenged, and right before the Revolution. she lived there in quite modest lifestyle (at least compared to the pomp and circumstance of Versailles), and before the death of her eldest son the Dauphin Louis Joseph. Truly sad thing what happened to her, and to her sons (and more specifically to her youngest son Louis-Charles, who was imprisoned and tortured by the revolutionaries, only for his "crime" to be born to the royal family.
+Djas Kang, Louis Charles was tortured... I read book about it: Philippe Delorme "Louis Charles, la biographie" Paris. 2015. Horror... poor Little Prince...
The child that was cast is the sweetest and cutest little doll baby. I just want to reach through the screen and give her a hug and help her play with all the little lambs and chickens and pick flowers with her. This movie was like watching a painting come to life.
@@katslife5500 “i wanted to make a personal story and not a big epic historical biopic” - sofia coppola it kind of isn’t but ok. this film wasn’t meant to be a documentary, but whatever helps u sleep at night i guess
Owns France. "WELCOME TO MY LITTLE VILLAGE" Love this scene, it's so beautiful. But you really have to consider how filthy rich they are to enjoy bucolicism.
Her playing shepherdess was so insulting. She actually thought this was a contribution to naturalism and Rousseau's doctrines? No bitch you aint a follower of Rousseau.
but to be fair, Marie Antoinette was just a teenage girl (she was only 14 or 15 when she was Dauphine) born into this world. She never knew anything else. She and her husband the king were way too young and naive to conquer and the former king (or kingS) had already destroyed everything, it's not like the system wasn't completely f*cked up before. She didn't invest monarchy, she was just born into it
One of my favorite scenes from the film. Kristen Dunst IS of German (3/4 German and 1/4 Swedish) heritage, and she actually looked very appropriate as Marie in terms of skin tone, eye color, hair color, etc. This film is so beautiful to watch, and it made me feel the sad and terrible parts of the revolution even though the film doesn't show that aspect. Yes the queen was out of touch -- but she had no power over the situation, was a political scapegoat, hideously ridiculed in the notorious pamphlets (displayed in pornographic scenarios and accused of every "horror" such as lesbianism and incest with her son), the "Austrian" who was murdered for what she symbolized. Rose Byrne as the Duchesse de Polignac is so gorgeous in this film -- exactly how I imagine the beautiful, extremely charismatic Duchesse (it is said she died of a broken heart when she learned of her best friend the queen's execution though she had actually been ill for a few years). The Duchesse de Polignac wasn't a redhead like Byrne but Byrne has those gorgeous doe-eyes, and the way she brightens every room was just perfect in this film.
I think they gave Rose red hair for the benefit of a broader modern audience, most of whom wouldn't be familiar with the identities of Marie Antoinette's favourites. It differentiates her from the Princesse de Lamballe, and you'll observe that the other girl in the milk scene has her own individual hair colour too. Some of the real Duchesse de Polignac's beauty can be seen in surviving photos of her grandson Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, who had her eyes and nose. How I wish we had photos of the court of Louis XVI!
She was called l'autrichienne by the French which was insulting to.the Queen. She was hated a lot. Today she would go to court and probably given a slap on the wrist and let go.
While there were famines around this time, most of the countryside remained loyal to the monarchy. Often not talked about is that Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette attempted to address the issue by selling various items in order to feed the poor. One Christmas, she told her daughter Marie Therese there would be no presents (as much as she would like to give some to her) in order to help those who were less fortunate than her. It was Paris that was the center of revolutionary fervor. Nor was this a simulated fantasy. The Court of Versailles was stifling with all it's protocols and members who despised her Austrian origins such as her spinster aunts, brother-in-law and extended family. The farm represented her much more idyllic life she had lived when growing up in Austria. Where she could interact with those from other social classes despite being an archduchess.
@@strugglingcollegestudent i of agree with you she didn't give her daughter any gifts but spent all of France's money on herself. Kind of selfish if you ask me.
What a contrast to Verseil. whereas in the palace, the gardens were all sharp edges, meant to show the triumph of man, through reason, over nature, here, there are wild flowers and roaming animals. While her time in the palace is defined by strict and unnatural feeling court rules, and here it is freedom, motherhood, gentleness, growth. She even reads a passage in this scene about leaving society.
It’s just as artificial as Versailles. That’s the point of showing the maids cleaning the eggs before she touched them. This is an fantasy world crafted for her, just like Versailles and not a true representation of pastoral life. Even when she thought she was free she wasn’t
I mean the natural garden started to become popular, it was called the English Garden. Chatsworth for example used to have a magnificent formal garden but as the trend swept in, the owner changed it and now it's way more simple and natural
It's not so odd for her to crave this way of life. She came from the Habsburgs in Vienna and her mother taught her to be close to simpler folk and care for the well-being of the people. Cut off from the land and people by the wall that was aristocracy in France she fled to this little world where she could mimic life how it was in an Austrian village or royal hunting lodge.
This is a beautiful scene! I've come to really appreciate it more after seeing 'A stich in Time Marie Antoinette on Elizabeth's RU-vid channel. She's a fashion historian. She explained the scandal of the cotton muslin dresses Marie Antoinette wore at the Petit Trianon and at court. And, she and her team recreated the dress from a famous painting! Was absolutely incredible!
This is honestly what the nursery song "Mary had a little lamb" was about! Learnt this fact when very young & as a lover of France, the Bourbons & Marie - it's forever stuck in my head!
@@strugglingcollegestudent There were many exceptions. Eleanor of Aquitane, a queen from the Middle Ages lived to be around 82 and outlived several of her children.
Same but I'd rather be that than be a peasant during that time. It's weird to think that in a lot of ways if Marie Antoinette time travelled she might think we lived like royalty. Because we have plumbing, electricity, cellphones, all things that would seem magical back then. Sure our houses might be smaller and we might not dress like her, but our quality of life at least in a first world country is arguably better than hers
Didn't the people tending that area have to clean the eggs off first, before she saw what they actually looked like? Like totally curated the experience for her?
Her first daughter lived into the era of photography. Too bad we dont have any pics. MA could have lived into that era had her head not come off. We could have had pics of her at a very old age.
I'd like to make the apologetic excuse that the eggs were being cleaned because they knew Marie-Therese would be with her. i.e. having one of the royal toddlers around anything that could potentially get them sick would obviously be a big no-no. But, let's be real. It was for Marie-Antoinette and her ladies (as well as the little princess) to enjoy an idyllic lifestyle removed from reality. :/
If the people of france had known about this the 'Let them eat cake' story need never have existed - her idea that their lives were so pleasant would've made them angry enough.
After learning about her life, and knowing what I know about people in general, I will bet money that she never said the terrible things that they said she did. They had an agenda which was to get rid of the monarchy . The best way to do that was to make them out to be vile and insensitive. To dehumanize them as much as possible so that they could do what they did to her and the king. They did the same thing to the Russian monarchy in the early 1900s. She was naïve and didn’t see this. She didn’t stand a chance and when people have an agenda against you, they will make everything you do and say out to be so much worse than it is. I don’t agree with monarchies of course. But murder is murder. The French resistance first assassinated her character, to make the French people hate and distrust her more than they already did, because she was an outsider. Just made it easier to kill her and accomplish their agenda. She was a pawn. And because they then owned the narrative, they damned her to history as this selfish, unfeeling, bitch who watched from her golden tower as the French people starved and lost her head for it. Such bullshit. I feel for the young lady.
How right you are. She was obviously used as a scapegoat by evil people to accomplish their agenda of overthrowing the monarchy. Same thing happened in Russia.
That kid is so adorable I also love the fact Marie and Louis have American accents while everyone else have either french or British accents this movie is pure eye candy
Princess Maria-Therese Charlotte was the only member of the family (I mean of the king, the queen, herself and her siblings) to survive the revolution. Sadly, she died childless.
Versailles is beautiful, but if I lived there, seeing all that gold decor everyday would give me a headache. Plus, I’ve been there twice! It literally feels like you are in Belle’s village!
This's 100 time more beautiful than shopping scene..the same but the opposite;beautiful too but natural and healthy,honestly&lively..few things,habits but enough🌾🌾🌾
+coco cat I agree with you that sounds weird, and i thought it might been cuter if Kirsten had spoken in French only in scenes where Marie with her children. Not 100% in french of course, because that would made it looks like typical historical movie. It supposed to be Marie's loose biography with modern vibe
+coco cat i guess because since Marie Antoinette's native language was German she would have sounded different from her kids and friends and this was how that was conveyed
Marie's "little village" is properly known as Hameau de la Reine (The Queen's Hamlet). It is not the Petit Trianon (although constructed very close to it). The Petit Trianon is shown briefly at the very beginning. of this clip.
***** I'll come back after I've seen the movie. Albeit I didn't get a good first impression when I saw a montage with "I Want Candy" in the background. I mean "Really?!!"
