Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzmann

directed by Sofia Coppola 

I had a slight headache due to overdose of pink and flashy colors right after watching this movie. Just try to imagine a feast of pastels, fuchsia and turquoise on your screen! It'll make you crave for cotton candies, bubblegum, gummy bears and yes…. cake!
A friend was actually frustrated about the movie that he warned me not to watch it,and he was actually too late because as a matter of fact, we are watching the same movie at the same time!
The film is great if you want to test your endurance and capability to withstand a slow-paced "are-we-there-yet" movie. It's actually hip though,groovy at times! Imagine 18th century France with all the corsets, the wigs, heavy make-up and everything and then you hear New Wave and Punk as background music! Kewl!
Sofia Coppola squeezed out fresh creative juices in making this film. Her unconventional approach was actually stunning. It's a bore watching historical films at times and it's also boring watching this movie but it's actually being compensated by the expectation of seeing something new with the directors contemporary technique. Sofia took a full turn with her treatment. Her stylized version produced a lavish biopic that is not simply based on historical facts but also through Coppola's vision of sensationalizing her interpretation.
The film is visually festive but it still holds a lot of crappiness. Character development is really poor.Useless long sequences and no tension at all. The material was somehow wasted. It could be great but Coppola chose to just stick with uhhmmmm…. nice!
It boasts a horrible miscast… Schwartzmann? Dunst?
Dunst is actually a favorite, but I dont see this role to perfectly suit her. But maybe with the treatment that Coppola has for this film, it was surely a huge miscast for the lead role… given that the character shown was turned into a fabulously intoxicated shopaholic sorority glamorosa fatal, Dunst is surely out of the picture… Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie or the Olsens would certainly fit those shoes with less effort…. and would certainly spell destruction for this production.
Coppola's attempt this time somehow fell below what was expected, but let's not give up on her. Well, I love her films, Lost in Translation, Virgin Suicides… but this? Sorry Sofie! Just not too good for me, but it could handle an Okay! But I do have to give her credit for her outstanding choice of music and luxurious, lavish and detailed production design.
It's actually a cool movie but definitely not a good one!