In "Madame DuBarry" Ernst Lubitsch adapted the history of the French revolution as a roguish novel a la "Barry Lyndon" (1975, Stanley Kubrick).
Today we consider "Barry Lyndon" as a breakthrough in film technology and especially cinematography. In 1919 the same was thought about "Madame DuBarry", and Enst Lubitsch was hailed as the German D.W. Griffith. "Madame DuBarry" was his ticket to Hollywood, and the film didn't do harm to the careers of Pola Negri (Madame DuBarry) and Emil Jannings (King Louis XV) either.
Due to the success of "Madame DuBarry" Lubitsch turned his attention the next year from the French court to the English court and made "Anna Boleyn" (1920). For more information about the French court one can look at "Marie Antoinette" (2006, Sofia Coppola). Madame DuBarry was the mistress of king Louis XV, Marie Antoinette was the wife of king Louis XVI.
Today we consider "Barry Lyndon" as a breakthrough in film technology and especially cinematography. In 1919 the same was thought about "Madame DuBarry", and Enst Lubitsch was hailed as the German D.W. Griffith. "Madame DuBarry" was his ticket to Hollywood, and the film didn't do harm to the careers of Pola Negri (Madame DuBarry) and Emil Jannings (King Louis XV) either.
Due to the success of "Madame DuBarry" Lubitsch turned his attention the next year from the French court to the English court and made "Anna Boleyn" (1920). For more information about the French court one can look at "Marie Antoinette" (2006, Sofia Coppola). Madame DuBarry was the mistress of king Louis XV, Marie Antoinette was the wife of king Louis XVI.