Marie Antoinette - Trailer (OFFICAL!!!!!)

Marie Antoinette came to the French court at Versailles an unsophisticated teenager and left, nearly two decades later, a reviled symbol of royal excess bound for the guillotine. The short shrift Sofia Coppola gives the larger political context within which Marie's life unfolded prompted derision when the film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, but her focus is clear from the start: Marie's discontents are trivial in the grand scheme of history, but to her they were everything and the movie is about her. Vienna, 1770: The arranged marriage of pretty teenage princess Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna von Habsburg-Lothringen (Kirsten Dunst), daughter of Empress Maria Theresa (Marianne Faithfull), to the shy, unprepossessing Dauphin Louis-Auguste (Jason Schwartzman), heir to the Bourbon throne, seals an alliance between Austria and France. Maria is escorted by Ambassador Mercy (Steve Coogan) to the border of the two countries and ceremonially divested of all things Austrian, even her beloved pug. "You may have as many French dogs as you like," says the steely Comtesse de Noailles (Judy Davis), who will instruct the newly christened "Marie Antoinette" in Versailles' complex rules of behavior. Alone and stifled by intricate protocol, her every move — from getting dressed to eating dinner — conducted in public, the inexperienced Marie is held responsible for her new husband's apparent lack of interest in consummating their marriage. Her position is insecure until she produces an heir, and Marie makes repeated social blunders, befriending indolent gossips, ignoring matters of state and offending King Louis XV's (Rip Torn) influential mistress, Madame du Barry (Asia Argento). Though she becomes queen, she alienates both her peers and the French public; the combination eventually seals her fate. Dunst's peaches-and-cream prettiness makes playing the young Marie a cakewalk, but her transformation into the beautiful but brittle woman in her thirties who fulfilled her duty as queen when the revolution erupted and she could have gone into exile is acting of a high and subtle order. Coppola positions Marie's retreat into gambling, shopping and parties as a sheltered girl's unfortunate but understandable response to the pressures of enormous responsibility without corresponding power, and her anachronistic use of '80s pop songs like "I Want Candy" to underscore Marie's shopping sprees is obvious but makes its point. Ultimately, Coppola's pastel-colored take on Marie's life is beguiling and annoying in equal measure, of a piece with LOST IN TRANSLATION (2003) in its sympathetic depiction of a pampered girl-woman whose unhappiness is no less real for being the pure product of privilege.

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[ContagiousRandomness]

i don't care what people think, i love this movie. and who cares if it doesn't show the french revolution fully, it wasn't supposed 2 b about the historical part. it is supposed 2 b about her youth, innocence and her luxurious life of wealth and privilege. Its a tragic story but she made it funny and beautiful to watch, with the scenery, costumes, music, and of course the food!

[Napp28]

So, when will Sofia Copola make Part II?

I really enjoyed the movie but, it stopped where it should've taken off. Marie Antoinette was at the centre of the French Revolution; Time for part II Sofia!!

[judetunes1]

@ContagiousRandomness Yes I agree with you and after I saw the movie I bought her,bio

I've read it 3 times now!

[missjimjam95]

@polishgrl87 naturals not in it by gang of four

[EthanShreve18]

This movie was so fucking inaccurate. 0_0

[bengeeman24]

@Napp28 Actually that's a good point about The Virgin Suicides. That film dealt with a dark topic.

Although I think Sofia is done with those sorts of dark themes I'm sad to say, given her latest few efforts.

As a side-note I've read and studied The Virgin Suicides novel at uni, I really recommend it. Eugenides' writing is beautiful and lilting.

[Napp28]

@bengeeman24 I think that would be the exact type of dark drama that she would be very interested in making a film about; and think of the awesome music she could use.

A few years back Ms Coppola directed a very dark movie called "The Virgin Suicides" (which also featured Kristen Dunst). I felt that Marie Antoinette cut off just as the audience wanted to see how the Queen's character was about to deal with such a contrasting life to that which she had known.

[bengeeman24]

@Napp28 I think Part II is she goes to jail then gets her head cut off. Wouldn't be the sort of thing Sofia Coppola would make a film about.

[polishgrl87]

What is the song that starts at :31?????

[judetunes1]

People are MORONS!! She was not trained to be a Queen she was sent there to make peace and babies that's it. DO NOT WRITE TO ME AGAIN!!!! 

[seppapio]

@judetunes1 I know, but instead of making plans to save money, she made it even worse. Honestly, if I were a hard working peasant and I saw her give all the tax revenues away to diamond bracelets, I would chop her head of as well. Like I said, she had it coming.

[judetunes1]

@seppapio France was already in money trouble before Marie got to France.