Marie Antoinette

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Having really enjoyed her two previous films, Virgin Suicides and Lost In Translation and been impressed with Sophie Coppola's track record as director(ice), I was interested to see if her promise held up with the third, Marie Antoinette.
Unfortunately, I found it sumptiously, well....void.
Fluffed up like a pastel meringue but as empty & light as the interspersed pop music that accompanies it.
Now I like 'light/zen' films in the vein of Jarmush, Lost In Translation but this is a complete disaster, IMHO.
Achingly painful New Jersey accents in the court of Versaille, with Kirsten Dunst looking kinda cute as if she was promenading around Santa Monica Beach, (she even got in an 'Oh my Gard!' somewhere) a flat story-line (like those machines go when the person dies) that had me comparing the unconsumated marriage of Marie Antoinette and Louis August with the complete lack of passion in the film and a Hollywood preoccupation with the fineries of the court (er, sumptious & filmed at Versaille itself. Duh, so what?).
Make that 'sumptuously barren'.
I walked out after an hour, the second film in a few years, the first being Gus Van Sant's 'Gerry'.
Now back to Neil Stephenson's amazingly burlesque but erudite account of Versaille in the third tome of his Baroque Cycle, 'The Confusion'.

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Topic - Marie Antoinette - Jeff Starrs 04:43:38 06/04/06 (0)

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