Marie-Antoinette
Not done poaching from Wes Anderson, Coppola's cast Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore), as well Dunst in the title role and the genius that is Steve Coogan. Also features an 80s pop soundtrack (including Siouxsie and the Banshees and Aphex Twin).
Antionette was a famously frivolous and naive Austrian lassie who, in 1774, became queen of France at age 19. She married an indifferent Louis XVI, who was much unprepared for the woes of politics. Antionette was ridiculed by France and was decapitated during the French Revolution.
- Director:
- Sofia Coppola (Lost In Translation, The Virgin Suicides)
- Writer:
- Sofia Coppola
- Cast:
- Kirsten DunstJason SchwartzmanRip TornSteve CooganMolly ShannonMarianne FaithfullJudy Davis
Reviews & comments
Variety
pressThe writer-director's follow-up to her breakthrough second feature, "Lost in Translation," is no more nourishing than a bonbon...
The New Yorker
pressAnything that rattles the ashtrays of French film critics has got to be seen...
San Francisco Chronicle
pressBut with "Marie Antoinette," Coppola offers only a handsome style piece in its place, lacking in wit or real significance...
Rolling Stone
pressBut Coppola sees more in Marie than an Old World Paris Hilton. By tossing in American slang, rock music (New Order and Bow Wow Wow) and eclectic acting styles, she's crashing through the barriers of centuries and stuffy Hollywood biopics to give us a palpable sense of Marie moving through the temptations of flesh and spirit before history boxed her in. With lyrical intelligence and scrappy wit, Coppola creates a luscious world to get lost in. It's a pleasure...
New Zealand Herald
pressThe use of music from artists such as Bow Wow Wow, The Cure and The Strokes at times comes across as inspired, and at other times as jarring and out of place. This pretty much sums up the film. At times it works, at times it doesn't. Marie Antoinette is not driven by story; there are periods where nothing happens. Instead, Coppola has presented a visual feast for those who are happy to look dreamily at clothes, shoes and decors for a couple of hours...
Los Angeles Times
pressMarie Antoinette gives a wide berth to the conventions of period dramas, especially their time-capsule remove, and instead tries to mainline the singular personal experience of the arch-villainess of French history (and freedom history, for that matter). The result is a startlingly original and beautiful pop reverie that comes very close to being transcendent...
Variety
pressThe writer-director's follow-up to her breakthrough second feature, "Lost in Translation," is no more nourishing than a bonbon...
The New Yorker
pressAnything that rattles the ashtrays of French film critics has got to be seen...
San Francisco Chronicle
pressBut with "Marie Antoinette," Coppola offers only a handsome style piece in its place, lacking in wit or real significance...
Rolling Stone
pressBut Coppola sees more in Marie than an Old World Paris Hilton. By tossing in American slang, rock music (New Order and Bow Wow Wow) and eclectic acting styles, she's crashing through the barriers of centuries and stuffy Hollywood biopics to give us a palpable sense of Marie moving through the temptations of flesh and spirit before history boxed her in. With lyrical intelligence and scrappy wit, Coppola creates a luscious world to get lost in. It's a pleasure...
New Zealand Herald
pressThe use of music from artists such as Bow Wow Wow, The Cure and The Strokes at times comes across as inspired, and at other times as jarring and out of place. This pretty much sums up the film. At times it works, at times it doesn't. Marie Antoinette is not driven by story; there are periods where nothing happens. Instead, Coppola has presented a visual feast for those who are happy to look dreamily at clothes, shoes and decors for a couple of hours...
Los Angeles Times
pressMarie Antoinette gives a wide berth to the conventions of period dramas, especially their time-capsule remove, and instead tries to mainline the singular personal experience of the arch-villainess of French history (and freedom history, for that matter). The result is a startlingly original and beautiful pop reverie that comes very close to being transcendent...
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