Marie Antoinette (2006)
Country: US/FR/JAP
Technical: col 123m
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Asia Argento, Danny Huston
Synopsis:
The young Austrian princess is packed off to form a political alliance with France, must cope with taking the blame for husband Louis' inability initially to consummate the marriage, takes a Swedish lover, enjoys an idyllic existence of parties and rural retreats at Versailles, and is finally fingered by the French people as the source of all its woes.
Review:
Coppola packages these familiar historical events in much the same fey and dramatically jejune fashion as in her previous films, but the advantage it has over its predecessors is that what it lacks in scope it more than gains in concentration: so hermetic is the seal from the world outside the château, save the odd cabinet meeting and trip to the capital, that we are totally wrapped up in the queen's blissfully ignorant dreamland. Indeed it is pointed out that it is the undignifying and stifling protocol of Versailles that brings about her flight from the reality she has been dealt. The soundtrack veers from nouveau punk to period baroque, the accents add to the at times anachronistic touches in the acting, and the whole endeavour just lacks the variety of pace really to translate the success of its parts.
Country: US/FR/JAP
Technical: col 123m
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Asia Argento, Danny Huston
Synopsis:
The young Austrian princess is packed off to form a political alliance with France, must cope with taking the blame for husband Louis' inability initially to consummate the marriage, takes a Swedish lover, enjoys an idyllic existence of parties and rural retreats at Versailles, and is finally fingered by the French people as the source of all its woes.
Review:
Coppola packages these familiar historical events in much the same fey and dramatically jejune fashion as in her previous films, but the advantage it has over its predecessors is that what it lacks in scope it more than gains in concentration: so hermetic is the seal from the world outside the château, save the odd cabinet meeting and trip to the capital, that we are totally wrapped up in the queen's blissfully ignorant dreamland. Indeed it is pointed out that it is the undignifying and stifling protocol of Versailles that brings about her flight from the reality she has been dealt. The soundtrack veers from nouveau punk to period baroque, the accents add to the at times anachronistic touches in the acting, and the whole endeavour just lacks the variety of pace really to translate the success of its parts.
Country: US/FR/JAP
Technical: col 123m
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Asia Argento, Danny Huston
Synopsis:
The young Austrian princess is packed off to form a political alliance with France, must cope with taking the blame for husband Louis' inability initially to consummate the marriage, takes a Swedish lover, enjoys an idyllic existence of parties and rural retreats at Versailles, and is finally fingered by the French people as the source of all its woes.
Review:
Coppola packages these familiar historical events in much the same fey and dramatically jejune fashion as in her previous films, but the advantage it has over its predecessors is that what it lacks in scope it more than gains in concentration: so hermetic is the seal from the world outside the château, save the odd cabinet meeting and trip to the capital, that we are totally wrapped up in the queen's blissfully ignorant dreamland. Indeed it is pointed out that it is the undignifying and stifling protocol of Versailles that brings about her flight from the reality she has been dealt. The soundtrack veers from nouveau punk to period baroque, the accents add to the at times anachronistic touches in the acting, and the whole endeavour just lacks the variety of pace really to translate the success of its parts.