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Last night I went to see the movie :bow:Marie Antoinette:bow: with some friends. We went to the Cinema Paradiso for a special screening with a talk by a historian. We arrived early to get our tickets and line up for seats. There were so many people there! I think the cinema was nearly full, and it was quite a large one. Luckily we got very good seats! We were a couple of rows down from the middle, and had a good central view of the screen :ladybug: Before the movie started, the Historian (Who’s name was Deborah, she’s australian but runs tours of Versailles) introduced the film by saying that at first she didn’t like it, because she’d been to see it originally with her “history hat” on, and of course a lot of it is not historically correct. However after watching it a few more times she began to see why the director had made it that way, and now she likes the film for what it was. Apparantly it was quite well recieved in France, because the French “got it” in a way the critics can’t understand.

I enjoyed the movie thoroughly :heart: I’ll post a full review shortly. After the film we had the chance to ask questions of the presenter. There were a few obvious ones, and some interesting ones (I was interested to learn exactly how much her clothing allowance was) and I asked a question myself. I asked “Do you think Madame du Barry was over villianised in the film?” and she said yes, and went on to describe the beautiful, sweet, well mannered creature Du Barry really was. I’m glad she agreed with me on this, because I was quite upset by how they portrayed her :grr: Du Barry is a figure who interests me quite a lot.

After the question session, we prepared to leave, but as we were going the Historian and the organizers of the event came up to us and asked if we wouldn’t mind having our photo’s taken with the presenter. Mirai and I were dressed in sweet lolita, so we posed with her for a bit. Afterwards I talked to her a little more about Du Barry and Marie Antoinette and she said she loved our clothing and that “She [marie antoinette] would be proud of you!” :heartarrow:

The movie finished early enough that we decided to go to the gaming arcade for a bit. My darling Prince tried very hard to win me a plushie on the UFO machines, but I think they were rigged :tears: We did take some cute Purikura though, and played DDR for a while (Steph is so good at DDR!). On our way home we stopped for Gelato and I made the Prince try the Lemon Lime and Bitters flavour I liked :icecream: It was a truely wonderful evening.