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Marie Antoinette

[2006, Movie]

Marie Antoinette: Review

Kirsten Dunst

Marie Antoinette came to the French court at Versailles an unsophisticated teenager and left, nearly two decades later, a reviled symbol of royal excess bound for the guillotine. The short shrift Sofia Coppola gives the larger political context within which Marie's life unfolded prompted derision when the film was shown at the Cannes Film Festival, but her focus is clear from the start: Marie's discontents are trivial in the grand scheme of history, but to her they were every... read more

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History — It's Based on a True Story! | A Beautiful Fraud | 10/27/2006
I haven't seen Sofia Coppola's spun-candy take on the life of Marie Antoinette yet, but I've got to laugh at the way Columbia Pictures has decided to market the film. At the end of the latest promotional trailer, in which the teen queen (played by Kirsten Dunst) is seen flitting about lavishily appointed rooms of Versailles as Gang of Four's "Natural's Not in It" blasts on the soundtrack, then traveling in he royal coach through the misty, early morning countryside to the melancholy strains of New Order's "Ceremony," these words appear: "Based on a True Story." I'm not exactly sure what to make of this. I know Coppola has been taken to task for her apparent political indifference and the historical inaccuracy of a film that purports to tell the story of an important real-life figure whose death marked one the most momentous occaisions in the history of Western Europe — the French Revolution. Since getting booed at Cannes — those French tend to take their own history very... read more

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Father and Daughter
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Network: VH1
Posted: 11/17/2007

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Network: VH1
Posted: 11/17/2007

The Way I Like It
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Posted: 11/17/2007

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Year: 2006
Rated PG-13

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Kirsten Dunst: Marie Antoinette
Marianne Faithfull: Maria Teresa
Steve Coogan: Ambassador Mercy
Clara Brajman: Austrian Girlfriend
Melodie Berenfeld: Austrian Girlfriend
Judy Davis: Comtesse de Noailles

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