Synopsis
The Affair of the Necklace (2001) is a costume drama you can watch online on iFILM, and a rare case of period intrigue pulled straight from court records. Its scandal — a swindle built around a fabulous diamond collar — helped wreck Marie Antoinette's name in the years just before the monarchy fell. Hilary Swank stars as Jeanne de la Motte, heir to a noble house the crown had stripped of everything.
Jeanne fights with cunning rather than a sword. She engineers a con around a necklace set with more than six hundred stones, originally made for a king's mistress, drawing in the gullible Cardinal de Rohan (Jonathan Pryce), the showman Cagliostro (Christopher Walken) and her own scheming husband. Every move pushes her closer to either a title or the scaffold.
Charles Shyer directs, with cinematographer Peter Menzies framing Versailles like oil paint; Adrien Brody and Simon Baker fill out the cast. This is a quiet, talky film for viewers who care more about the mechanics of deception than swashbuckling. Stream The Affair of the Necklace (2001) online on iFILM.
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