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Marie Antoinette (2006)
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MARIE ANTOINETTE a film review
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"(this review was first published at www.thecinematheque.com on 10/12/06) What does one get when one combines postmodern pop sensibility, French Nouvelle Vague philosophies and eighties new wave music and pour it all into an 18th century period piece already stuffed fat and full with ravishing costumes, luscious set pieces and sexually decadent behaviour? One gets Sofia Coppola's best film yet! Opening with a wink and a nod, and full of candy-coloured confections of awkward yet graceful charm and wry wit, Marie Antoinette perhaps is not as surfacely deep as her two earlier films, but it does share with her predecessors a claustrophobic sense of entrapment and unheeded privilege. Like Scarlett Johansson's Charlotte in Lost in Translation, afraid to venture pass the lobby of her plush Park Hyatt Tokyo, and Kirsten Dunst herself as Lux Lisbon in The Virgin Suicides, a languorous kitten trapped by society inside her own imagined world, Marie, just fourteen when sent to marry the Dauphi ... "
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"Marie Antoinette is one of history's most (in)famous monarchs. It's not like she did anything special for her people, considering that after her reign, France was faced with many debts to settle. However, she certainly had that je-ne-sais-quoi about her, and so does Sofia Coppola's movie. It is not a perfect movie in any way (it's not even a well-done movie), but it will surely amuse for its two hour length. Every single shot of "Marie Antoinette" is a pleasure to look at, beautiful and full of rich colors. However, this cannot be due to wonderful filmmaking - we're talking about Kirsten Dunst and Versailles. Dunst is gorgeous, and the role suits her perfectly. No matter how many myths have been told about the queen's vanity, and no matter how many shoes Copolla fits into a shot (there is even a pair of blue Converse All-Stars), she rises above these shallow approaches to acting, and makes Marie a vulnerable, observant woman. As for Versailles, the castle is a character of its own, ... "
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"This week has been hectic and so I have only had time so far to enjoy two movies. No matter, the week is still young. Election (1999) is an old favourite. Alexander Payne is one of my favourite film makers and whilst he is still honing his craft here, I adore his screenplay's use of tone and narrative voice. For those who haven't seen it - Election is told through a number of different narrators, all of whom have views of the events that unfold throughout the course of the picture. Characters conflict one another's accounts and are unreliable, yet that is part of the joy and we always come to see through their self-deceptions. It is the story of a girl who is the class priss. Who clearly thinks that she is streets ahead of her classmates and wants all of the attention. She is misguided, believing that success will beget friendship. It is her smarmy attitude that causes the vividly negative reaction that her history teacher, Jim McAllister (Broderick) develops to her. He wants her t ... "
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"I liked this movie as it presented a personal point of view of the life of Marie Antoinette instead of the typical view from the revolutionists. You see the ridiculous traditions of formality of the French monarchy, and an inside look to her relationship with her husband. I think it's easy to forgot how political alliances were created through strategic marriages and the role of women in society back then. It was an interesting look into Marie Antoinette as a daughter, a wife, and a mother. "
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Marie Antoinette
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"A very lavish production, great scenery, beautiful sets and costumes and yet very boring. It completely fails to contrast the the different way of living of the average Frenchmen and the nobility. After all, this is what brougnt about the French Revolution. Don'y waste your time on this one as I did hoping it would get better as the movie progressed! "
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Marie Antoinette
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"This weekend the Girlfriend and I sat down to watch, with some small amount of excitement, Marie Antoinette. The excitement came from director Sofia Coppola, of whom I would consider myself a fan after her first two, amazing films. The Virgin Suicides, which I was completely ready to dislike, ended up being a haunting, melancholy and beautiful meditation on that last summer before discovering sex and 'growing up', with an absolutely brilliant soundtrack. The scene where the boys call the isolated Lisbon girls and they hold an entire conversation using only the records they play into the phone was one of the best uses of popular songs in a movie I've seen in awhile. Lost In Translation was, to me, even better, with a bittersweet romance that is no less real because it is never consummated. In fact, it feels more genuine because the two main characters, so obviously falling in love with each other, never become physical. The relationship between Bill Murray and Scarlett J ... "
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"I think the reason why so many people were disappointed with this movie (it was booed at Cannes) was because it had an excellent trailer that completely misrepresents the film. Marie Antoinette is a slow moving but fascinating character study, not the hip generation-Y fun that the trailer promised. It is a very good film nonetheless.I don't know enough about this area of history to determinate how accurate it is. It opens as Marie (Kirsten Dunst) leaves her native Austria to enter into an arranged marriage with the heir to the French throne, Louis XVI (Coppola's cousin Jason Schwartzman). Marie quickly finds herself in an odd situation - she is supposed to produce an heir, but the socially awkward and introverted Louis in unable to help. In other words, her sole purpose in life is to have sex with someone who doesn't want to have sex with her. Marie finds that she is not popular at court because of her difficulties.What I liked most of about the film was its portrait of Marie. ... "
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"I don’t want to imply that I find all corset movies to be boring — though I’ve never been a big fan of that stuffy period-piece genre — but after watching the new trailer for The Duchess (courtesy of Moviefone), I’ve bookmarked the film as potentially the??most effective??sleeping aid??of 2008. The main problem is that Keira Knightley in a corset is one of the most tired things in filmmaking these days. In fact, Knightley in any type of period "
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Craig Baldwin’s New Film in SF
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"If you like Next to Heaven, Rob Parrish’s found-footage noir web series that we talked about a couple of weeks ago on FilmCouch, chances are good that you’d probably get a kick out of Craig Baldwin. He’s probably best known for his 1995 film, Sonic Outlaws, an documentary which merged form and content by using montages rife with pop culture appropriations to tell the story of Negativland, who were essentially the first band to cause an internationally-publicized legal incident by creating a mash-up. All of the issues that intersect in Sonic Outlaws–piracy, fair use, underground artists vs. corporate interests–are totally current today, and yet Sonic Outlaws documents a world that’s entirely pre-digital. There are tons of clips from the film on Google Video, or you can buy a DVD directly from Baldwin’s DVD label, Other Cinema Digital. Or, if you’re in San Francisco, you can also show up tomorrow night at Artists’ Television Access,?? where Baldwin’s weekly Other Cinema series will i ... "
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"A friend of mine saw this at the New York Film Festival last year and did not enjoy it. Hearing him talk about it he said that it's obvious historical inacuracies, failed attempt to get the viewer to feel sympathy for Ms. Antoinette and other short commings made this the first kink in an otherwise promising career for Ms. Coppola. To a certain extent I agree, that was however until I decided to view the film in a different light. If you look at the film just as a character study then of course you are not going to be impressed with these characters. They are the very definition of gluttons and even the attempts to feel sympathy for her (sticking with her husband) came off as another shirking of responsibilites (that of being responsible for the safety and well being of her children). Then I started to think about how visually pleasing and interesting the movie is. When you go from dreary Austria to colorful and vibrant france, the use of many different colors and the choic ... "
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