French director Benoit Jacquot tells stories with a strong command of cinematic form, but he might as well be a psychoanalyst: He puts repressed characters in close-up while their unstated desires ...

Four days before the French Revolution arrived at the gates of Versailles, it was business as usual. The queen was preoccupied with fashion and the romantic intrigues of her aristocratic attendants, ...

In the new film - not so new, actually, since it opened the Berlin festival in February last year - Diane Kruger plays Marie Antoinette, but the story of her approaching downfall is told from an ...