Marie Antoinette. 2006. Written and directed by Sofia Coppola

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Marie Antoinette. 2006. USA. Written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Courtesy of Photofest

Marie Antoinette. 2006. USA. Written and directed by Sofia Coppola . With Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Molly Shannon. DCP. 123 min.

For her hotly anticipated followup to Lost in Translation, Coppola fashioned Antonia Fraser’s bestselling 2001 biography Marie Antoinette: The Journey into an intimate portrait of bottomless aristocratic excess, with a sense of gilded-cage isolation that recalls The Virgin Suicides. Coppola’s perennial muse, Kirsten Dunst, anchors the film as the eponymous last queen of France, sold by her Austrian dynastic family into an underwhelming marriage with the feckless King Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman, one of the film’s many inspired casting choices). Granted her biggest-ever budget and unprecedented access to the palace of Versailles, Coppola raised eyebrows by willfully embracing anachronism (Converse sneakers, a 1980s pop soundtrack); Marie Antoinette has stood the test of time as a trenchant subversion of staid historical biopics.

This film accompanies Sofia Coppola: A Tribute.

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