Marie Antoinette is a film directed and written by Sofia Coppola
Nominated to Palme D’Or but winning only the Cinema Prize of the French National Education System at Cannes in the same year, this marvelous and sensitive film is a joy of the eye. The best she ever directed. The music choice is also extremely inspired, with the costumes by Milena Canonero who won herself an Academy Award for them.
Kirsten Dunst (the Interview With the Vampire revelation, movie based on Ann Rice‘s famous book) as Marie Antoinette, cousin Jason Schwartzman as Louis XVI, Judy Davis as Comtesse de Noailles, Rip Torn as Louis XV, the Troy surprise Rose Byrne as the naughty and tarty Duchesse de Polignac, Asia Argento, the royal mistress Comtesse du Barry, the almost everywhere present Shirley Henderson, Danny Huston the brother Emperor Joseph, to name just a few of the artillery who helped Lady Antonia Fraser book’s screening. The almost homonymous book has depicted more the human in this child Queen, than the historical character. Romanced and smooth, this movie never bore the viewer.
Not at all the same as the Oscar nominee and winner screenplay Lost in Translation, where I suppose the second hand “actress”, Scarlett Johansson was considered the revelation at the time, in 2003.
Marie Antoinette – Kirsten Dunst
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released in October 20, 2006
112′
a film directed and written by
The father, actually the Godfather of American Cinema, Francis Ford Coppola was executive producer, so the daughter resorted more to the family and friends for this movie, the cousin Jason and her first movie star, Kirsten Dunst. Personally, after the Anne Rice’s based one, the second movie I noticed Dunst, was John Stockwell‘s Crazy/Beautiful (the image below),
Crazy/Beautiful – Kirsten Dunst and Jay Hernandez
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not The Virgin Suicides, two years earlier, or even most early than that, the little more than a cameo appearance in Barry Levinson‘s Wag the Dog, where she was the Albanian wanna be girl with the white cat. I liked her act. The rest doesn’t matter, she was good as queen Marie Antoinette, she was very alike with the depictions of her time
Speaking of the book, Marie Antoinette: The Journey is considered, by some historians, as the most thorough and balanced biography of the queen, though it naturally builds upon earlier biographies, first hand accounts, and even the infamous words which destroyed the queen’s reputation. Sofia Coppola denied them very artistically in the movie.
After three years from the Academy Awards Gala, this isn’t yet a smoked, forgettable movie.
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