Word: housemistress
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...does through her hermetically sealed world of gossip and isolation.Early in the film, after a farcical morning “dressing ceremony” involving no less that 14 courtiers, an incensed Marie proclaims, “This is ridiculous!” to which her stern housemistress replies, “This, Madame, is Versaille.” And in the end, the film really is a whole lot like the elaborate world it reproduces and the sad, lost girl doomed to inhabit it: distractingly ornate and beautifully stylized, but somehow ultimately empty. Bottom line: This sugar-rush...
| 1 |