Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette (2006)

  • 55% of critics liked it
    (178 reviews)

  • 56% of users liked it
    (240,233 ratings)

Writer and director Sofia Coppola puts a new spin on the life and times of one of Europe's most infamous monarchs in this lavish historical drama which fuses a contemporary sensibility with painstaking recreations of the look of the 18th century. Born to Austrian nobility, Marie Antoinette… More

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PG-13,
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Genres
Documentary, Drama
In Theaters
Oct 20, 2006 Wide
Sony Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

    It's very pretty and occasionally amusing but also dreadfully dull for long, long stretches.

  • Susan Walker, Toronto Star

    The director squanders a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to film on the grounds and inside the Palace of Versailles. It's the trappings we get, in richly reproduced costumes and all-over gilt furniture, at the expense of any substance.

  • 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.

  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

    Coppola's queen experiences no inner transformation or redemption because, in this telling, she's in no need of it. She's cool to begin with.

  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

    With lyrical intelligence and scrappy wit, Coppola creates a luscious world to get lost in. It's a pleasure.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Bob S


    sofia coppola lyrical pink post-punk marzipan music-vid - eat it up, yum

  • Emil K


    Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is mostly worth to see because of it's handsome surface. This is a film that truly looks great. It is also much better than Coppola's earlier works as an director. Where Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation felt nothing but a empty… More

  • Sophie B


    The marketing of this film made me expect something much easier and fun than what I actually viewed which is such a shame. It's very long, very slow and very taxing on the viewers attention span.

  • Jason R


    Perhaps I'm biased by the fact that I've always wanted to be the French dauphin, but I thought this was a very charming movie. I think Sofia gets a little carried away with herself, the movie was about 30 minutes too long, but in many ways she succeeds in bring a dull… More

  • Kase V


    Although it may be surprising, i found 'Marie Antoinette' to be one of Sofia Coppola's most entertaining films, if not her most. The soundtrack was edgy and cool and the cinematography was as beautiful as always. The problem with Coppola's film are perhaps the… More

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