
"All eyes will be on you," says the Austrian Empress, Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film, marketed for a teen audience, is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinette's life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Marie Antoinette, as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of France.... (Full plot summary below)
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"All eyes will be on you," says the Austrian Empress, Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film, marketed for a teen audience, is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinette's life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Marie Antoinette, as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of France.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertKristen Dunst is pitch-perfect in the title role. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayCoppola brilliantly conjures the young queen's insular world, in which she was both isolated and claustrophobically scrutinized. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversWith lyrical intelligence and scrappy wit, Coppola creates a luscious world to get lost in. It's a pleasure. |
| Los Angeles TimesCarina ChocanoMarie Antoinette gives a wide berth to the conventions of period dramas, especially their time-capsule remove, and instead tries to mainline the singular personal experience of the arch-villainess of French history (and freedom history, for that matter). The result is a startlingly original and beautiful pop reverie that comes very close to being transcendent. |
| New York PostKyle SmithCoppola works in weird ways, but the real Versailles was so much weirder. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaA gorgeous confection, packed with gargantuan gowns and pornographic displays of pastrystuffs, Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is also a sharp, smart look at the isolation, ennui and supercilious affairs of the rich, famous and famously pampered. |
| The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttIn the revisionist Marie Antoinette, writer-director Sofia Coppola and actress Kirsten Dunst take a remote and no doubt misunderstood historical figure, the controversial and often despised Queen of France at the time of the French Revolution, and brings her into sharp focus as a living, breathing human being with flaws, foibles, passions, intelligence and warm affections. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottA thoroughly modern confection, blending insouciance and sophistication, heartfelt longing and self-conscious posing with the guileless self-assurance of a great pop song. What to do for pleasure? Go see this movie, for starters. |
| EmpireIan FreerMarie Antoinette is gorgeous, giddy, gilded filmmaking. |
| Miami HeraldConnie OgleCoppola and her crew were allowed to shoot at Versailles -- family pedigree does pay dividends, apparently -- which gives the film a needed whiff of reality. |