Marie Antoinette

3.50
    Marie Antoinette
    2006

    Synopsis

    An Austrian teenager marries the Dauphin of France and becomes that country's queen following the death of King Louis XV in 1774. Years later, after a life of luxury and privilege, Marie Antoinette loses her head during the French Revolution.

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    Cast

    • Kirsten DunstMarie Antoinette
    • Jason SchwartzmanLouis XVI
    • Steve CooganAmbassador Mercy
    • Judy DavisComtesse de Noailles
    • Rip TornLouis XV
    • Asia ArgentoComtesse du Barry
    • Molly ShannonAunt Victoire
    • Shirley HendersonAunt Sophie
    • Rose ByrneDuchesse de Polignac
    • Mary NighyPrincesse Lamballe

    Recommendations

    • 88

      New York Post

      Coppola works in weird ways, but the real Versailles was so much weirder.
    • 80

      Salon

      Coppola captures the luxe insularity of Marie Antoinette's world in a way that leaves no doubt why the revolution had to happen. The picture's final image is a moment of devastating stillness that wouldn't be out of place in Luchino Visconti's end-of-an-era masterpiece "The Leopard."
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      In 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.
    • 80

      The New York Times

      A 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.
    • 80

      Empire

      Marie Antoinette is gorgeous, giddy, gilded filmmaking.
    • 75

      Premiere

      Marie Antoinette churns a symphony out of a single note, too light and hermetically sealed in the minds of Coppola and her queen to transcend its artfully cared-for fluffiness.
    • 70

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      This is one of the most immediate, personal costume dramas ever made, and so it's not unseemly to consider how the writer-director and her heroine overlap.
    • 60

      Village Voice

      A graceful, charming, and sometimes witty confection -- at least for its first hour.

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