For all the pretty people and prettier costumes stuffed into the film, [Coppola] has left a blank emotional slate on which moviegoers can Etch-a-Sketch any version they like.
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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
The real-life Marie Antoinette lost her head. The sunshiny-day-dreaminess of 'Marie Antoinette' may make you wonder if writer-director Sofia Coppola has lost her mind.
10/20/06
Once she makes the sound feminist point that it wasn't easy being a girl in 1768, Coppola proves intellectually taxed.
10/20/06
It is both the greatest strength and a major weakness of Marie Antoinette that every moment seems as self-contained as a pop song.
10/20/06
[It] uses an 18th century story to shed some light on how flamboyantly and shallowly some people lead their lives in any age.
10/20/06
The film deflates the reason why she is a compelling figure, if at all. Her courage during her confinement, %u2026 and her ultimate death made her an honorary member of the Dead Blonde Hall of Fame. Her victimization made her an icon.
10/20/06
The biggest disappointment of the year
10/19/06
I enjoyed the music, but not the film.
10/19/06
For all the rock music, modern dialogue and lack of accents, Marie Antoinette is not that different from most historical/political biopics.
10/19/06
Works for about an hour until it becomes as monotonous as hanging out with a gaggle of teenage shoppers who couldn't care less about their history assignment.
10/19/06
The film is better as a curiosity than as entertainment.
10/19/06
...never quite becomes anything more than a mildly entertaining curiosity - something that can be attributed to Coppola's meandering screenplay and penchant for long, dialogue-free sequences.
10/19/06
After her appearance in Godfather III, I didn't think it was possible that I could hate Sofia Coppola more, but her Marie Antoinette really takes the cake
10/19/06
A sort of John Hughes movie, "The Breakfast Club Part 2: A Semester at Versailles."
10/19/06
Mainly, Marie Antoinette is a film about fetish. It's about taking in all the pink cookies, pink shoes and pink wigs and finding them wonderful, even erotic.
10/19/06
Though Dunst looks the part and stunningly carries off foot-high powdered wigs and lavish costumes, her flat affect and simpering voice don't conjure up the requisite sense of arrogant power, corruption and narcissism.
10/19/06
Marie Antoinette, which was shot at Versailles, looks absolutely sumptuous, but is, ultimately as substantial as a bonbon.
10/19/06
A largely static, desperately pseudo-hip attempt to reconstruct the events leading up to the French Revolution from the vantage point of a 1980s punk rocker.
10/19/06
The queen may keep her head here, but this Marie is pretty brainless.
10/19/06
A startlingly original and beautiful pop reverie that comes very close to being transcendent.
10/19/06
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