Marie Antoinette (Kirsten Dunst) and Fersen (Jamie Dornan) in “Marie Antoinette” (2006)
Personally I expected a lot more from the film by Sofia Coppola Marie Antoinette , a film that, in my opinion, not only adds nothing to the figure of Marie Antoinette , but, on the contrary, it insists on the trite and coy vision of a frivolous and light-hearted woman, although it has long since been historically outdated.
In short, recent film (2006), old stereotypes.
And since today nothing is successful if we do not insist a little too much, no matter if forcibly and at the expense of the truth of the facts, on sex and violence, the director has seen fit to include some delicately hot scenes in the story to spice it up, although it is very unlikely that the Queen of France could have so shamelessly flirted with Fersen outside and inside Versailles, the most gossipy and "voyeur" palace in Europe.
For over two centuries the nature of the bond, which certainly existed, between Marie Antoinette and the Swedish count Hans Axel von Fersen is the subject of studies and debates, from which, for now, the only certainty that can be deduced, is that it was lasting and so profound as to withstand even the revolutionary wind, which also swept away friendships of convenience and hypocritical people, but which did not prevented this sincerely devoted and in love aristocrat from risking his life to save that of "his" queen.
This is why reducing this relationship, whose characteristics are also completely ignored, to a simple adventure between bored and fiery young people like Coppola does, is not only trivial, but also, in fact, completely unreliable.
The aforementioned erotic- soft scenes mentioned there, you can find them in the video (from youtube.com) affixed below.