It’s very pretty and occasionally amusing but also dreadfully dull for long, long stretches.
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10/25/06
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Marie Antoinette (2006)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:19
Rotten:19
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:2006
Box Office: $15,962,471
Synopsis: Oscar® winner Sofia Coppola brings to the screen a fresh interpretation of the life of France's legendary teenage queen MARIE ANTOINETTE. Betrothed to King Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman), the naïve... [More]
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Steve Coogan, Judy Davis
Director: Sofia Coppola
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Reviews for Marie Antoinette
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.
10/20/06
Top CriticCoppola'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.
10/20/06
Top CriticWith lyrical intelligence and scrappy wit, Coppola creates a luscious world to get lost in. It's a pleasure.
10/20/06
Top CriticDunst plays Marie Antoinette as if she's seen the future and it's Paris Hilton.
10/20/06
Top CriticThere's not much meat at this banquet, only sweets.
10/20/06
Top CriticHere's one thing about Marie Antoinette: It sure is easy to watch. And here's another: It's even easier to forget.
10/20/06
Top CriticShe was born into fabulous wealth and fame. By the time she was a teenager, her name was well-known to both the public and the well-to do. So is it any wonder Sofia Coppola wanted to do a movie about Marie Antoinette?
10/20/06
Top CriticAlthough it is purposely devoid of substance, it is still devoid of substance.
10/20/06
Top CriticBy the end, the sad, preposterous emptiness of the court has overtaken the movie and turned it from a potentially intriguing drama into a forlorn, muzzy daydream.
10/20/06
Top CriticThe result is a silly piece of costume jewelry called Marie Antoinette, and no, the soldering of a new-wave-revival soundtrack with 18th-century Versailles is not interesting enough to save this bauble.
10/20/06
Top CriticThe movie ends as it started, with Marie in a carriage, unaware of the fate we know awaits her. It's the last in a long line of things the movie neither shows or tells us.
10/20/06
Top CriticEvery 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.
10/20/06
Top CriticGiven Coppola's fashion-first approach, it's a miracle the film doesn't feel more like a long perfume ad. But the movie has atmosphere, beauty, spirit, and exquisite production design, photography, and editing.
10/20/06
Top CriticThough Dunst looks the part and stunningly carries off foot-high powdered wigs and lavish costumes, her flat affect and simpering voice don't conjure up the requisite sense of arrogant power, corruption and narcissism.
10/19/06
Top CriticMarie Antoinette, which was shot at Versailles, looks absolutely sumptuous, but is, ultimately as substantial as a bonbon.
10/19/06
Top CriticA largely static, desperately pseudo-hip attempt to reconstruct the events leading up to the French Revolution from the vantage point of a 1980s punk rocker.
10/19/06
Top CriticA startlingly original and beautiful pop reverie that comes very close to being transcendent.
10/19/06
Top CriticCoppola's film is a superior achievement, a story as rich and resonant as its protagonist is hollow.
10/19/06
Top CriticCoppola brilliantly conjures the young queen's insular world, in which she was both isolated and claustrophobically scrutinized. While not celebrating Marie Antoinette's reign, Coppola clearly sympathizes with a girl who was less heedless than naive.
10/19/06
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