MARIE ANTOINETTE
5 out of 5 stars

emperor joseph: is your hair quite tall enough today? maybe you can keep a pet in there or something. (to his sister marie antoinette’s hair-do)



i LOVE marie antoinette. i don’t care what anyone thinks… she’s so awesome! (her style, her personality, her life…even the fact that she got beheaded by the guillotine) i’ve even visited the beautiful versailles and even the prison conciergerie where she was kept in paris by the seine. but i especially like the fact that this film shows an artistic view of such a historical figure, rather than something that might get broadcasted on masterpiece theater late one sunday night! ;)


there isn’t much of a plot with this since it is a biopic of one of the most infamous queens of france, but it certainly shows us a lifestyle of how one lived at versailles. the food, the sweets, the gambling, the 80s soundtrack, the partying, the dresses, the décor, the shoes (LOVE how haute-couture shoe designer manolo blahnik was asked to design some new creations at the request of the director): ALL IS QUITE BEAUTIFUL AND COLORFUL!!! afterall, we’re talking about the 17th century, n’est-ce pas? but then, we also see versailles as a prison for young marie. (kristen dunst does a superb job!) pressured to have children with an aloof husband, she doesn’t know what to do nor does she have a clue about what is brewing in paris. (AKA the french revolution)


sofia coppola (daughter of famed director francis ford coppola) shows us JUST THAT. she shows us how young marie was forced to be “french” and to just forget about everything “austrian”, even her dog mops was taken away from her upon arriving on french soil… it’s sad. her life and marriage was orchestrated by her mother and king louis XVI for the franco-austrian alliance, and she was nothing but a teenage girl the entire time she was queen. (so was louis XVII) so, you basically got two teenage kids running a country with unlimited resources at their feet… wonder what they’d spend the country’s funds on… and oh la la, you’re in for some eye candy! (cue: bow wow wow’s i want candy :P)