Marie-Antoinette (2006) (TV)

Directors:

Francis Leclerc
Yves Simoneau

Writer:

Jean-Claude Carrière (writer)

Release Date:

21 December 2006 (Canada)

Plot Keywords:

Versailles | Marie Antoinette

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Karine Vanasse	...	Marie-Antoinette
Olivier Aubin	...	Louis XVI
Marie-Eve Beaulieu	...	Madame de Polignac
Danny Gilmore	...	Comte de Fersen
Chloé Rocheleau	...	Marie-Thérèse
Hélène Florent	...	Madame du Barry
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Paul Ahmarani	...	Léonard
Charles Berling	...	Récitant (voice)
Luc Bourgeois	...	Bijoutier Bohmer
Daniel Brière
François Caffiaux
Maude Campeau
Patrick Caux
Vincent Champoux	...	Comte de Provence
Serge Christianssens
Pierre-André Côté
Gina Couture	...	Madame De Noailles
Evelyne de la Chenelière
Catherine de Léan
Frédéric Desager
Paul Doucet
Marc Dumesnil
Charles Dury	...	2e fils Marie-Antoinette
Raphaël Dury	...	Louis-Joseph
Annick Fontaine
Marie-Josée Forget	...	Rose Bertin
Pierre-Alexandre Fortin
Marie-Ève Gamache	...	Sosie de Marie-Antoinette
Vincent Giroux
Paul Patrick Hébert
Roc LaFortune
David La Haye	...	Cardinal De Rohan
Mathilde Lavigne	...	Comtesse de La Motte
Isabelle Lemme
Jean-Marie Moncelet
Vincent-Guillaume Otis	...	Comte D'Artois
Jules Philip	...	Monsieur de La Motte
Myriam Poirier	...	Madame Victoire
Claude Préfontaine
Christophe Rapin
Paul Savoie	...	Louis XV
Gabrielle Vallières
Sébastien Ventura

Directed by
Francis Leclerc
Yves Simoneau

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Jean-Claude Carrière		writer

Produced by
Alex Sliman	....	executive producer
Christophe Valette	....	executive producer

Cinematography by
Guy Dufaux

Film Editing by
Isabelle Malenfant

Production Design by
Richard Cunin

Costume Design by
Pierre Bechir
Nicoletta Massone
Sylvie de Segonzac

Makeup Department
Madeleine Bourassa	....	hair stylist: Canada
Julie Casault	....	makeup artist: Canada
Claudette B. Casavant	....	assistant makeup artist
Diane Geraldine Courchesne	....	hair stylist: Canada (as Géraldine Courchesne)
Mélina Di Christo	....	key extra department
Mélina Di Christo	....	makeup artist
Linda Gordon	....	hair stylist: Canada
Catherine Jabes	....	key hair stylist (as Cathy Vidal-Jabes)
Manon Joly	....	hair stylist: Canada
Raymonde Laliberté	....	hair stylist: Canada
Anne-Louise Landry	....	hair stylist: Canada
Nicole Lapierre	....	key makeup artist
Catherine Lavoie	....	makeup artist
Sophie Lebeau	....	makeup artist: Canada
Josée Lemire	....	hair stylist: Canada
Serge Morache	....	hair stylist: Canada
Denis Parent	....	hair stylist: Canada
Claudie Vandenbroucque	....	makeup artist: Canada

Production Management
Cédric Bourdoncle	....	unit manager
Raoul Chatellier	....	unit manager
Danielle Fontaine	....	production manager: Canada
Frédéric J. Lozet	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Tania Bissonnette	....	assistant director: Canada
Anne-Marie Foumier	....	assistant director: Canada
Caroline Landry	....	assistant director: Canada
Natalia Ortelli	....	assistant director: Canada
Harold Trépanier	....	assistant director: Canada

Art Department
Ilinca Balaban	....	assistant set decorator: Canada
Pierre Balducchi	....	assistant decorator
Pascal Chatton	....	assistant art director
Pascal Chatton	....	first assistant decorator
René Forest	....	assistant set decorator: Canada
Serge Nadon	....	assistant set decorator: Canada

Sound Department
Olivier Audivert	....	sound mixer
Daniel Bisson	....	foley editor
Gregory Bolduc	....	walla recordist
Martin Cazes	....	sound supervisor
Alexis Duceppe	....	sound: Canada
Véronique Gabillaud	....	sound: Canada
Bernard Gariépy Strobl	....	sound re-recording mixer
Edith Labbe	....	assistant foley artist
Hans Laitres	....	assistant sound mixer
Patrick Lalonde	....	assistant sound mixer
France Leduc	....	dialogue editor
Simon Meilleur	....	foley artist
Vincent Riendeau	....	assistant sound mixer

Visual Effects by
Patrice-Alain Barrette	....	digital compositor
Michel Barrière	....	digital compositor
Olivier Beaulieu	....	digital compositor
Pierre Blain	....	digital compositor
Xavier Bourque	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Caroline Brien	....	digital compositor
Wayne Brinton	....	digital compositor
Matthieu Chatelier	....	digital artist
Joanie Croteau	....	post-production assistant: Hybride
Olivier Debert	....	digital compositor
Thierry Delattre	....	visual effects supervisor
Luc Desmarais	....	production assistant: Hybride
Anouk Deveault-Moreau	....	visual effects coordinator: Hybride
Mathieu Dupuis	....	lead digital compositor: Hybride
Stephan Gervais	....	production assistant: Hybride
Myléne Guérin	....	visual effects coordinator
Nadine Homier	....	digital compositor
Jean-Francois Houde	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Evelyne Leblond	....	digital compositor
Francois Leduc	....	digital compositor: Hybride (as François Leduc)
Martin Lipmann	....	digital compositor
Jocelyn Maher	....	digital compositor
Richard Martin	....	visual effects supervisor
Christian Morin	....	digital compositor
Sean O'Connor	....	production assistant: Hybride
Pierre Raymond	....	visual effects producer
Benjamin Ribière	....	Inferno artist
Sébastien Rioux	....	digital compositor
Katy Savoie	....	production assistant: Hybride
Laurent Spillemaecker	....	Flame compositor: Hybride
Guillaume St-Aubin-Seers	....	digital compositor
Sean Stranks	....	digital compositor: Hybride
Vincent Toussaint	....	production assistant: Hybride
Raphael Valle	....	digital compositor

Camera and Electrical Department
Pierre Beaulieu	....	best boy
Pierre Beaulieu	....	electrician
Pascal Courchesne	....	grip
Amélie Douville	....	grip
Jean-François Dubé	....	grip
Amelie Duceppe	....	second assistant camera
Sylvaine Dufaux	....	camera operator: "a" camera
Joel Gariépy	....	grip
Stephanie Girard Hamelin	....	assistant camera: Canada (as Stéphanie Girard-Hamelin)
Robert LaCroix	....	grip
Jean Legrand	....	first assistant camera
Charles Marcotte	....	electrician: Canada
Christian Navennec	....	assistant camera: Canada
Dany Racine	....	first assistant camera: "a" camera
Serge Raymond	....	electrician: Canada
Paul Viau	....	gaffer

Casting Department
Murielle Laferrière	....	casting: Canada

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Catherina Chamberland	....	costumer: Canada (as Caterina Chamberland)
Sylvie Charbonneau	....	costumer: Canada
Julie Chenard	....	costumer: Canada (as Julie Chénard)
Lorianne Chenel	....	costumer (as Laurianne Chenel)
Nathalie Chretien	....	costumer: Canada (as Nathalie Chrétien)
Priscilla Collin	....	costumer: Canada
Jacques Doucet	....	costumer: Canada
Geneviève Hébert	....	costumer: Canada
Naima Lagrange	....	wardrobe
Michel L'Heureux	....	costumer: Canada
Chantal Simard	....	costumer: Canada
John Stowe	....	costumer: Canada
Madeleine Tremblay	....	costumer: Canada
Alain Vallée	....	costumer: Canada
Michael Vottero	....	wardrobe

Transportation Department
Victor Labelle	....	driver: cast

Other crew
Caroline Barrette	....	production administrator: Canada
Audrey Dauman	....	press attache
Nathalie A. Deprez	....	script supervisor: Canada
Nicolas Gay	....	production administrator
Elisa Gougoux	....	production coordinator
Francine Lebrun	....	production coordinator
Gilles Pontbriand	....	production administrator: Canada
Anh Roquet	....	production administrator
Dominik Schmelck	....	finance director

Production Companies

• GMT Productions
• Télé-Québec
• Émergence International Inc.

Distributors

• America Video Film (2007) (Argentina) (all media)
• America Video (2007) (Argentina) (all media)
• Argentina Video Home (2007) (Argentina) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Hybride Technologies (visual effects)

Other Companies

• Le Château de Versailles  special thanks

Also Known As:

Marie-Antoinette, la véritable histoire (France) (DVD title)

Runtime:

Canada:90 min | Argentina:90 min

Country:

Canada | France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Saint-Hubert, Québec, Canada

Company:

GMT Productions

Movie Connections:

Version of Marie Antoinette (2006)

Technically great but sketchy and superficial

I finally got from amazon.fr the French DVD of this Canadian production with Marie Antoinette expert Chantal Thomas as historical consultant.

It is technically quite stunning when you think that ALL scenes are virtually recreated: just the actors and a few pieces of furniture are real. It really seems shot on location.

As a movie (a docu-fiction?) it is far too sketchy and superficial (just a succession of key moments in Marie Antoinette's life commented by a voice-over with a few dialog by the actors) to be absorbing. The acting is overall competent with Canadian actress Karine Vanasse really quite appreciable as the queen (her final reading of the testament letter is moving).

No Austrian childhood is shown: the movie starts just before the queen leaves her prison for the scaffold and starts remembering her first arrival in Versailles.

The film is historically quite valid (facts and period costume design are respected), even though Marie Antoinette is described as being a little too "tête à vents" even in her mature years. I also found one big historical error: Marie Antoinette is shown in the Conciergerie with both her children (the dauphin is taken from her in the Conciergerie) while it is universally known that she left the Temple prison for the Conciergerie alone.