MARIE ANTOINETTE
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HOLLYWOOD - Off with your head if you don’t see the most important womany film of the year, Marie Antoinette. This poignant, bittersweet confection will win you over, dazzle you with how cool it is, and just maybe, make you allow them to eat cake, “them” being your sensibilities and the “cake” being this film.
Kirsten Dunst sparkles as the young, sensitive royal starlet, who’s treated like a piece of veal by the court and eventually is given up to die as a chump, but in the meantime, this Marie rocks her wig off! Party after party, shopping spree after sex romp, Marie is living large! Woo, woo, woo! Oh, but she suffers because she’s the girl-toy of an entire nation.
Directed by Sophia Coppola, Marie is as skillfully crafted as an affordable Merlot. Marie provokes with lessons in history, wows with elegant surroundings lovingly photographed, and endears with neck-breaking mood swings. Kirsten Dunst is astonishing, playing a teenage aristocrat with the casual aplomb of a twenty-ish actress. Jason Schwartzman brings his brooding broodiness to the role of the guy Marie marries, and delivers a terrific performance, even subjecting himself to remaining cleanly shaven. Other cast members wear their costumes with sparkle, wit and passion.
Ms. Coppola has come into her own as a mature young crafter of womany films, and uses her immense talent to lay bare the pain and loneliness that wealthy, kept women are subjected to, day in and day out. In their gilded prisons they cry to be understood, and Ms. Coppola gives them voice. Brava, Sophia, brava!
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