Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002
| Sunday, May 06, 2007 - 5:13 pm
Looked for a thread on this movie but didn't find one. We watched it last night, and both really wanted to love it for different reasons. Colossus loves Kirsten Dunst and watched to slobber over her in period costumes. I thought it would be something like a Baz Lurman film, fast-moving with a modern score. I also knew it was intended by Sofia Coppola to tell the story from Marie Antoinette's point of view. Unfortunately, the movie had no script. Dunst looked fine, the costumes were great. And that was it. No context. No dialogue. No illustration of why her behavior was so poorly received. No political background. Not even a convincing set-up for how young and insulated Marie Antoinette was when she became Dauphine of France. I haven't read this particular book of Antonia Fraser's, but I've read others and I'm SURE there was a much better film to be made of it. Sofia Coppola needs a screen-writing partner with a gift for story-telling. I understand what she was going for here, but she failed miserably. I didn't mind the film, but I sure wouldn't watch it twice.
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