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10/20/06
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
This is just a lark, a heavy-handed one without the heart of even the bad histories which gave us a Marie who said (as she never did) Let them eat cake.
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For all the technical beauty of Marie Antoinette, there's nobody at home at Versailles.
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Dunst plays Marie Antoinette as if she's seen the future and it's Paris Hilton.
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Instead of turning her inside out, Coppola illustrates just how ordinary she was and how her insular world prevented her from understanding the events that eventually would end her life.
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Coppola may have failed here, but her aesthetic instincts remain strong.
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By film’s end when the royal family is forced to evacuate the besieged Versailles (no guillotine in this retelling), this Marie has achieved something like genuine nobility. When the chips are down she takes her queenly role seriously.
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With a fresh approach, Sofia Coppola's film makes Marie Antoinette human, and sympathetic, and lets 18th-century history rock out into modern times.
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There's not much meat at this banquet, only sweets.
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It's like eating dessert first and never getting around to the main course.
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Here's one thing about Marie Antoinette: It sure is easy to watch. And here's another: It's even easier to forget.
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She was born into fabulous wealth and fame. By the time she was a teenager, her name was well-known to both the public and the well-to do. So is it any wonder Sofia Coppola wanted to do a movie about Marie Antoinette?
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Although it is purposely devoid of substance, it is still devoid of substance.
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As for Dunst, there's nothing she does here that couldn't have been done by Jessica Simpson.
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By the end, the sad, preposterous emptiness of the court has overtaken the movie and turned it from a potentially intriguing drama into a forlorn, muzzy daydream.
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The result is a silly piece of costume jewelry called Marie Antoinette, and no, the soldering of a new-wave-revival soundtrack with 18th-century Versailles is not interesting enough to save this bauble.
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This is her weakest movie to date, and yet as a reflection of Coppola's intriguing quality as a filmmaker, there's something about it that makes you wonder what the test of time will do to this Marie Antoinette.
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The movie ends as it started, with Marie in a carriage, unaware of the fate we know awaits her. It's the last in a long line of things the movie neither shows or tells us.
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Every criticism I have read of this film would alter is fragile magic and reduce its romantic and tragic poignancy to the level of an instructional film.
10/20/06
Top CriticGiven Coppola's fashion-first approach, it's a miracle the film doesn't feel more like a long perfume ad. But the movie has atmosphere, beauty, spirit, and exquisite production design, photography, and editing.
10/20/06
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