Students were invariably intrigued by the relationship of Henry II, Catherine de Medici, and Diane de Poitiers. But whereas punk was anarchic and about breaking down barriers of acceptability, New Romanticism was about flamboyant self-expression. One of my favourite things on set was watching him make these incredibly delicate flower arrangements.

Lost in Translation opened doors for us because artists understood we were gonna use music in a cool way. We would do these scenes in bed where we’re not connecting, but you’ve gotta be so connected to do that. From her birth in Vienna in 1755 through her turbulent, unhappy marriage, the bloody turmoil of the French Revolution, her trial for high treason during which she was accused of incest, and her final beheading, Marie Antoinette's life was the tragic tale of disastrous circumstances colliding. Everybody lived in different neighbourhoods so we’d compare notes on the best restaurants and supermarkets.My work explores numerous genres to question a number of recurring themes: exile and the representation of otherness; nostalgia and the experience of bereavement; the social impact of new technologies; America’s history and its troubled present. Married for political reasons at the age of 14, Marie Antoinette was naive, impetuous, and ill-equipped for the role in which history cast her. Everyone knows Marie Antoinette, but did you know about her fierce and formidable sister, Queen Maria Carolina Charlotte of Naples? She had optioned the film rights to the esteemed British historian’s best-selling biography, Marie Antoinette: The Journey. Some Rights Reserved (2009-2023) under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license unless otherwise noted.

The scandalous libelle pamphlets, which had been attacking Marie Antoinette for as long as she had been queen, began spreading rumors that Louis XVI was not the father to the royal children.I walked into the Governor’s Ball and saw Sofia sitting with Amy Pascal, and I remember hearing [Pascal] say something to the effect of “I have to do the next one. In this book Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow journalism, and television, and then flourished during the Romantic period on both sides of the Atlantic. Dornan: It takes a lot of shots for me to start dancing, and I remember dancing quite a lot, if that tells you anything.