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Marie Antoinette (2006)

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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.

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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

PG-13,

Documentary, Drama

Feb 13, 2007

$16.0M

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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.

October 25, 2006 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comments (2)
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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.

October 20, 2006 Full Review Source: Toronto Star | Comment (1)
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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.

October 20, 2006 Full Review Source: Seattle Times
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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.

October 20, 2006 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle
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With lyrical intelligence and scrappy wit, Coppola creates a luscious world to get lost in. It's a pleasure.

October 20, 2006 | Comments (5)
Rolling Stone
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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.

October 20, 2006 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel
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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.

November 7, 2012 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine Australasia
Empire Magazine Australasia

Fragilely evanescent

August 28, 2009 Full Review Source: CinePassion
CinePassion

With her third film, Sophia Coppola exhibits an annoying preference for style over substance.

April 24, 2009 Full Review Source: ColeSmithey.com
ColeSmithey.com

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.

August 25, 2008 Full Review Source: ReelzChannel.com

Teen queen rocks out in punk-scored biopic.

July 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media

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.

May 5, 2008 Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | Comment (1)
CinemaBlend.com

A visually scrumptious version of France's iconic but ill-fated Austrian-born queen, Marie Antoinette.

December 17, 2007 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Coppola gives us a fun new take on an old genre.

July 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis
Movie Metropolis

Coppola successfully has made a period film that doesn't feel like a museum piece.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Murphy's Movie Reviews
Murphy's Movie Reviews

The very antithesis of the traditional historical film, approaching its material as an accepted present.

July 3, 2007 Full Review Source: Stranger Song
Stranger Song

The DVD version of Marie Antoinette includes a smattering of mildly interesting extras.

April 29, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

Sofia Coppola has sacrificed a compelling storyline in exchange for aimless atmospherics.

April 29, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide
Apollo Guide

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.

April 8, 2007 Full Review Source: Cinematical
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Audience Reviews for Marie Antoinette

sofia coppola lyrical pink post-punk marzipan music-vid - eat it up, yum
April 2, 2007
brooklynspo

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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 shells or film without that much of an style neither, Marie Antoinette does have some observant moments and works as a interesting history lesson at the same time.
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.
January 7, 2012
emilkakko

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    1. Marie Antoinette: This is ridiculous!
    2. Comtesse de Noailles: This is Versailles!
    – Submitted by Frances H (6 months ago)
    1. Marie Antoinette: Then let them eat cake.
    – Submitted by David B (11 months ago)

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