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French critics slammed the biopic as 'deeply clumsy' and 'boring'. But Sir Ridley Scott has insisted: 'The audience that I showed it to in Paris, they loved it.'
Among the scenes critics have taken issue with is one showing Marie Antoinette with curly hair as she makes her way to be guillotined. In fact, she had her hair closely cut before she was killed.
The actress, 35, who plays Napoleon Bonaparte's first wife Empress Joséphine in the biopic, ripped her delicate semi-sheer top.
The Joker actor cut a dapper figure as he headed to celebrity spot Chiltern Firehouse after the Napoleon premiere in London on Thursday.
Despite garnering glowing reviews in Britain and the US, the epic starring Joaquin Phoenix as the marauding French emperor has riled critics on the continent.