Comments on: Book (and movie!) Recommendations by the Princess Francesca

By: bonnie-ann black

bonnie-ann black — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:40:37 +0000

“Heidi” and “Pippi Longstocking” were two of the first books i took out of the library when i was 7 or 8… i’ve re-read them both every couple of years — and love both Shirley Temple movies. my friend, who is a movie critic, was quite impressed by Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette”… now for a really good movie about Catherine the Great — who started off unwanted, unloved and unhappy and became the ultimate Russian Tsarina…

By: K

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:36:55 +0000

I loved Sofia Coppola’s take on Marie Antoinette and I really wish it had been more warmly received. I think she did an amazing job showing Marie’s utter isolation from the rest of France and the pre-revolution activities, and how a normal teenage girl would react to being placed in an environment like Versailles. It’s nice to see a shout-out to the book here.

Oh, and the double CD soundtrack? Utterly A-MAZ-ING.

By: gemdiva

gemdiva — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:22:02 +0000

Just saw the Marie Antoinette movie and I also thought it was somewhat lacking, BUT OMG all those glorious shoes left me hyperventilating!! Anyway, I became quite intrigued by her story and was planning on getting a good biography. Now, thanks to this blog, I have 2 great suggestions. Thanks ladies :-) BTW - I am a total sucker for any Shirley Temple movie ever made (I love a good tap dance number) and I adore both movie versions of The Little Princess.

By: Fashionbigot

Fashionbigot — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:50:19 +0000

Marie Antoinette: The Journey is one of my most cherished books. Awesome to see it recommended randomly like this.

By: class-factotum

class-factotum — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:58:36 +0000

Yes, I have heard the same thing about Marie A — that that saying is from way before her time.

I loved the book “Heidi!” It was one of the few books I owned as a child. My family didn’t have a lot of money and it wasn’t worth it to buy books even if we could afford them because the military would pay to move only a certain amount of weight and books weigh a lot. I did, however, become a friend of the library at a very young age — the librarians would let me take out ten books at a time on my mother’s ID card.

By: Francesca

Francesca — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:09:56 +0000

Well, he dated her very briefly, but she didn’t want the responsibilities of being Queen so that was the end of that. I don’t know how far it would have gone otherwise.

By: teapunk

teapunk — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:19:17 +0000

You might probably like the “Sissi” movies (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048624/) about Empress Elizabeth of Austria. Really kitschy with a rather slim hold to reality but a true christmas classic in german TV.
And may I recommend Stefan Zweig’s biography of Marie Antoinette? I liked it better than Frasers, but then again: I didn’t really like Coppolas movie.

By: lynda

lynda — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:25:02 +0000

Charles was supposed to marry Diana’s older sister? I didn’t even know she had an older sister!

I learn so much from this blog :)