I know; I feel much the same way. It looks like it will be gorgeous but I can't see myself enjoying being prodded into thinking 'oh how sad it is that the lovely rich people had to die! Those nasty revolutionaries for getting all annoyed. The court only wanted to have fun' as I watch it.

I think one of their tags is 'the most misunderstood woman in history.' Because she was just naive and wanted play with the cows, presumably. There are presumably interesting stories you could film about the French revolution, but this doesn't sound like one of them.