Marie Antoinette (2006)
Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 178
Fresh: 98 | Rotten: 80
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.
Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 45
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 22
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.
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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 (Kirsten Dunst) is only 14 years old when she's pledged to marry Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman), the 15-year-old king of France, in an alliance that has everything to do with politics and nothing to do with
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Cast
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Kirsten Dunst
Marie Antoinette -
Jason Schwartzman
Louis XVI -
Judy Davis
Comtesse de Noailles -
Rip Torn
Louis XV -
Rose Byrne
Duchesse de Polignac -
Asia Argento
Contesse du Barry -
Molly Shannon
Aunt Victoire -
Shirley Henderson
Aunt Sophie -
Danny Huston
Emperor Joseph -
Marianne Faithfull
Maria Teresa -
Mary Nighy
Princesse Lamballe -
Sebastian Armesto
Comte de Provence -
Jamie Dornan
Count Fersen -
Aurore Clement
Duchesse de Char -
Guillaume Gallienne
Vergennes -
James Lance
Leonard -
Al Weaver
Comte d'Artois -
Tom Hardy
Raumont -
Steve Coogan
Ambassador Mercy -
Clara Brajman
Austrian Girlfriend -
Mélodie Berenfeld
Austrian Girlfriend -
Jean-Christophe Bouvet
Duc de Choiseul -
lo Bottoms
Lady-in-Waiting -
Celine Sallette
Lady-in-Waiting -
André Oumansky
Cardinal de la Roche Ay... -
Jean-Paul Scarpitta
Baron Scarpitta -
René Lucien Rolland
Archbishop -
Clémentine Poidatz
Comtesse de Provence -
Camille Miceli
Grand Chambellan -
Paul Fortune
Duc Fortune -
Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni
Comtesse de Cavozzoni -
Alexia Landeau
Comtesse de la Londe -
Joe Sheridan
Catty Courtier -
Katrine Boorman
The English Duchess -
Sarah Adler
Comtesse d'Artois -
Jean-Marc Stehle
Doctor Lassonne -
Paul Jasmin
Baron Jasmin -
Francis Leplay
Doctor Delivery Provenc... -
Mathieu Amalric
Man at Masked Ball -
Carlo Brandt
Palace Gardener -
Raphael Neal
Garden Page -
John P. Arnold
Minister of Finances -
Scali Delpeyrat
Doctor Delivery M-A -
Chloé Van Barthold
Elisabeth -
Phoenix
Petit Trianon Musicians -
Lauriane Mascaro
Marie Therese 2 Years -
Gaëlle Bona
Girl at Petit Trianon -
William Doherty
Councilman -
Florrie Betts
Marie Therese 6 Years -
Dominic Gould
Count -
Jago Betts
Dauphin 2 Years -
Axel Küng
Dauphin 2 Years -
Driss Hugo-Kalff
Dauphin 2 Years -
Fabrice Scott
King's Messenger -
Alain Doutey
Chief Valet -
Bob Barrett
Page -
Joseph Malerba
Queen's Guard -
Blair Brown
Narrator -
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All Critics (189) | Top Critics (45) | Fresh (106) | Rotten (82) | DVD (21)
It's very pretty and occasionally amusing but also dreadfully dull for long, long stretches.
Top CriticThe 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.
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.
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.
With lyrical intelligence and scrappy wit, Coppola creates a luscious world to get lost in. It's a pleasure.
This is just a lark, a heavy-handed one without the heart of even the bad histories which gave us a Marie who said (as she never did) Let them eat cake.
This gauzy interpretation of the French icon as the life of a decadent paparazzi princess is Versailles via Vogue, a frivolous New Romantic confection in which history is less important than emotional veracity.
Fragilely evanescent
With her third film, Sophia Coppola exhibits an annoying preference for style over substance.
The montages set to modern rock music work well, further making the heart of the story accessible to the modern viewer. However, if you need your movies to move along quickly, then Marie Antoinette is probably not for you.
Teen queen rocks out in punk-scored biopic.
This could be the story of Paris Hilton if she were to be married off to an impotent French Prince instead of dating meatheads armed with camcorders.
A visually scrumptious version of France's iconic but ill-fated Austrian-born queen, Marie Antoinette.
Coppola gives us a fun new take on an old genre.
Coppola successfully has made a period film that doesn't feel like a museum piece.
The very antithesis of the traditional historical film, approaching its material as an accepted present.
The DVD version of Marie Antoinette includes a smattering of mildly interesting extras.
Sofia Coppola has sacrificed a compelling storyline in exchange for aimless atmospherics.
For two hours, we are treated to a display of prettiness. It's like one big elaborate meringue, delicate and intricately decorated, but without much past the surface.
Audience Reviews for Marie Antoinette
Super Reviewer
With aid from lenser Lance Acord, Coppola has captured some very good looking sights to her camera. The fantastic production design by K.K. Barrett must be also mentioned and same goes for Milena Canonero's Oscar-winning costume design which is another eye candy in this film. But beneath all the style and "supposed to be cool" soundtrack there is not that much of an real story.
Coppla's films have always been trying to be observant and even minimalist when it comes to storytelling. Only problem is that Coppola does not seem to capture anything worth to see or worth to say while watching trough her lense. These characters in her films are mostly hollow and uninteresting. Only her Somewhere succeeded in creating a true emotion as a film.
While Sofia ain't even close to her father's talents she still has a voice of her own. Some people has found their way into her stories but for me her films feel too pretentious and calculated to be fully enjoyed.
Super Reviewer
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- Marie Antoinette: This is ridiculous!
- Comtesse de Noailles: This is Versailles!
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- Marie Antoinette: Then let them eat cake.
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