Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn
Biopic of the beautiful Queen of France who became a symbol for the wanton extravagance of the 18th century monarchy, and was stripped of her riches and finery, imprisoned and beheaded by her own subj...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 13, 2007
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August 27, 2009Fantastic Biopic that doesn't bog itself down with the usual biopic cliches. A really refreshing and visually stunning film that really captures parts of history often skipped over in schools (and its the only film of its kind that I will say that it doesn't matter too much that ...( read more)
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March 19, 2009Sofia Coppola's third feature is uniwue and beautiful, but it certainly asks a lot of its viewer. Nothing happens in this movie, seriously. It's meant to portray a girl being forced into situations for political reasons, a girl disconnected from everything and everyone.
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October 25, 2008I normally can't stand Kirsten Dunst, but I really liked this movie. It was a great historical film with a modern twist.
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October 31, 2009Amazing costumes. incredible contrast between the beginning of the film and the end. Really great watch.
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October 17, 2009Sadly, and this may upset Spiderman fans, but Kirsten Dunst's best acting days came when she was a little girl and starred in Interview with the Vampire. She really doesn't have the acting range to play a lead character like this. Not a bad movie, but if you know anything about h...( read more)
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October 12, 2009I wasn't interested in seeing this movie, and now when I have seen it, I think I should have followed my instinct. I think this movie is one of the most boring movies ever made. I admit that I haven't seen the end of it, but I don't think the last half an hour makes up the EXTREM...( read more)
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October 12, 2009visualmente lindo e trilha sonora perfeita. Sophia Coppola tenta mostrar nesse filme o resquício de sofisticação e elegância que ainda se mantém na França atual, o que restou da monarquia e seus deleites e banquetes oníricos e absurdos, representados pela figura icônica desse con...( read more)
Critic Reviews
November 6, 2006
Pete Hammond, Maxim
October 20, 2006
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
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. full review
October 20, 2006
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
With lyrical intelligence and scrappy wit, Coppola creates a luscious world to get lost in. It's a pleasure. full review
October 20, 2006
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
There's not much meat at this banquet, only sweets. full review
October 20, 2006
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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. full review
October 19, 2006
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune
Coppola's film is a superior achievement, a story as rich and resonant as its protagonist is hollow. full review
October 16, 2006
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
The one, transfixing virtue of Marie Antoinette is its unembarrassed devotion to the superficial. There is no morality at play here, no agony other than boredom, and, until the last half hour, not a s... full review
October 13, 2006
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
A buoyant, passionately sympathetic dream-bio. full review
October 12, 2006
A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Highly theatrical and yet also intimate and informal, Marie Antoinette lets its story slink almost casually through its lovingly composed and rendered images.
October 9, 2006
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
This is one of the most immediate, personal costume dramas ever made, and so it's not unseemly to consider how the writer-director and her heroine overlap. full review
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January 29, 2009i heard about this story before ...
It was a great historical movie... i enjoy it so much -
June 3, 2008Media lenta, media tonta, lo mejor El coronel dede la armada, los zapatos mas que todo los CONVERS que se ven en una escena y fiestas ....me perdi parte del final :(
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April 14, 2008I originally wanted to complain about the ending, too, until I realized what Coppola really meant by making this movie. The truth is that it's not to be watched so much for the history as to see someone from so long ago and shown to be someone we could relate to today. Take a young girl who comes from a fair amount of money, put her in a castle with huge amounts of money and what do you get? Every young girl with lots of money. Don't believe me? Look at the actresses of today. Tell me that Lindsay Lohan or Britney Spears would make a good leader. Coppola shows us through this movie that Marie was acting just as any young girl put into power and money would do. She just wanted to live her life and have a good time. The fact that Coppola chose not to show us her beheading was just because if you're watching it you should know a little about her anyway. We all know how she died and why, so for this film it's not important to show that. It's much more important to show how she lived.
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June 19, 2007This is my FAVOURITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME!! It rocks, L.O.V.E
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June 5, 2007i love this movie lol on the first day i saw it i watched it again lol i love these kinds of romantis movies lol
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May 30, 2007I love this movie SOOO much! I love how they made Marie Antoinette appear to be like any other teenage girl--just happened to live during a rough time. The cinematography is stunning, the costumes are stunning, the music is WONDERFUL! So many people make out Marie to be some horrible, heartless, Queen. When, in reality, she just lived during harsh times and was really scrutinized for everything she did--or didn't do.
A very fresh and fun movie. Certainly one I will enjoy watching again and again.
And, no, she never said "Let Them Eat Cake." And Sofia knows that. They talk about it on the special features on the DVD. -
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May 10, 2007Unless the film is performed exclusively in french by french actors and actresses, the accents point is moot. Having people say "'And mee ze boot" is no more historically accurate than "Hand me the book".
The ecclectic mix of accents (UK, US, Italian, etc) were a very conscious decision by Sofia Coppola to illustrate the cosmopolitan nature of Versailles. The film is a feverish dream, a true original experience. It is not a historical retelling, rather a work of art that uses the historically reviled figure of Marie Antoinette to tell the simple and universal story of a little girl thrust upon an impossible position, struggling to make the best of it, succeeding, and ultimately being crucified for it.
BTW: she doesn't say "Let them eat cake" in the film either. In fact, there's a quick scene where she explicitly states this. It is used as the tag line in a semi-ironic way. -
May 7, 2007The movie was pretty pointless. I just read a review that said that if you didn't like the film you're too interested in the historical side of it. Well excuse me, but I think the former queen of france should get a better representation than that. The accents were crap, the scenes jumped all over the place, and it spent too much time on kirsten trying to get her husband to have sex with her, which was just weird. The only part I thought was decent was the beginning, where she is just making the transition from her home country into france. The ending was uninteresting and there were scences in the movie that had no relevance whatsoever to absolutely anything.
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May 2, 2007i love this movie i read a book abou ther called queens confessions it was really good
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