From scene to scene you sense Coppola has a strong personal connection with both this character and the material, but it's never articulated clearly enough to elevate her film beyond an admirable head-scratcher.
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10/22/06
Marie Antoinette (2006)
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Reviews Counted:170
Fresh:92
Rotten:78
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Lavish imagery and a daring soundtrack set this film apart from most period dramas; in fact, style complete takes precedence over plot and character development in Coppola's vision of the doomed queen.
Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Oscar® winner Sofia Coppola brings to the screen a fresh interpretation of the life of France's legendary teenage queen MARIE ANTOINETTE. Betrothed to King Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman), the naïve... [More]
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Steve Coogan, Judy Davis
Director: Sofia Coppola
Reviews for Marie Antoinette
The film keeps its focus on the queen's teenness, her formation as an icon and a legend, her measure as a girl.
10/21/06
A visually splendid cinematic poem, part speculation of Antoinette's mindset, part fantasy dress-up indulgence, and all expression of a kindred spirit shared by young women across the centuries.
10/21/06
Without daddy's money...Coppola's emaciated screenplay would still be moldering on her hard drive as the author worked the 10-4 shift at the Starbucks on Figueroa.
10/21/06
Too much blurry cinematography and indecipherable whispering made 'Marie Antoinette' the most annoying film I've seen since 'Miami Vice.'
10/21/06
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10/21/06
The first film to be shot inside the palace of Versailles, it succeeds in portraying the excess of royalty which, in part, led to the Revolution.
10/21/06
Its billowy folds of cotton candy fluff make for a one-of-a-kind counterpoint to the stogy self-importance of similar works.
10/20/06
Director Sofia Coppola transforms what would otherwise be described as a costume drama into a subtle dissertation on the vagaries of our too-much-too-soon culture. But at the same time, Coppola's general approach to moviemaking seems to produce this kind
10/20/06
It's history written with truffles.
10/20/06
It's always fun to take a glimpse into the remarkably insane world of the royal village of Versailles at the end of the old regime.
10/20/06
Filler Queen.
10/20/06
The director squanders a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to film on the grounds and inside the Palace of Versailles. It's the trappings we get, in richly reproduced costumes and all-over gilt furniture, at the expense of any substance.
10/20/06
Little happens for much of Marie Antoinette, but Coppola is a visual storyteller, and with her first big canvas she creates a giddy world at Versailles in color and light.
10/20/06
Coppola's queen experiences no inner transformation or redemption because, in this telling, she's in no need of it. She's cool to begin with.
10/20/06
[It's] of a piece with Lost in Translation in its sympathetic depiction of a pampered girl-woman whose unhappiness is no less real for being the pure product of privilege.
10/20/06
Forgive the straw-grasping, but a film made with such care inspires a search for meaning.
10/20/06
With lyrical intelligence and scrappy wit, Coppola creates a luscious world to get lost in. It's a pleasure.
10/20/06
Coppola fails to define what made Marie Antoinette especially unique or deserving of such a lasting reputation.
10/20/06
Yes, it's a very pretty picture, but this movie could have been so much more.
10/20/06
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