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Marie Antoinette

  • 20062006
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 2h 3m
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Kirsten Dunst in Marie Antoinette (2006)
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The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 14 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, a... Read allThe retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 14 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 14 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
110K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
1,980
113
  • Director
    • Sofia Coppola
  • Writer
    • Sofia Coppola
  • Stars
    • Kirsten Dunst
    • Jason Schwartzman
    • Rip Torn
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  • Director
    • Sofia Coppola
  • Writer
    • Sofia Coppola
  • Stars
    • Kirsten Dunst
    • Jason Schwartzman
    • Rip Torn
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    • 713User reviews
    • 255Critic reviews
    • 65Metascore
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    • Won 1 Oscar
      • 19 wins & 24 nominations total

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    Kirsten Dunst
    Kirsten Dunst
    • Marie Antoinetteas Marie Antoinette
    Jason Schwartzman
    Jason Schwartzman
    • Louis XVIas Louis XVI
    Rip Torn
    Rip Torn
    • Louis XVas Louis XV
    Steve Coogan
    Steve Coogan
    • Ambassador Mercyas Ambassador Mercy
    Judy Davis
    Judy Davis
    • Comtesse de Noaillesas Comtesse de Noailles
    Clara Brajtman
    Clara Brajtman
    • Austrian Girlfriend #1as Austrian Girlfriend #1
    • (as Clara Brajman)
    Mélodie Berenfeld
    Mélodie Berenfeld
    • Austrian Girlfriend #2as Austrian Girlfriend #2
    Asia Argento
    Asia Argento
    • Comtesse du Barryas Comtesse du Barry
    Molly Shannon
    Molly Shannon
    • Aunt Victoireas Aunt Victoire
    Sebastian Armesto
    Sebastian Armesto
    • Comte Louis de Provenceas Comte Louis de Provence
    Shirley Henderson
    Shirley Henderson
    • Aunt Sophieas Aunt Sophie
    Al Weaver
    Al Weaver
    • Comte Charles d'Artoisas Comte Charles d'Artois
    Marianne Faithfull
    Marianne Faithfull
    • Empress Maria Theresaas Empress Maria Theresa
    Jean-Christophe Bouvet
    Jean-Christophe Bouvet
    • Duc de Choiseulas Duc de Choiseul
    Io Bottoms
    Io Bottoms
    • Lady in Waitingas Lady in Waiting
    Aurore Clément
    Aurore Clément
    • Duchesse de Charas Duchesse de Char
    Céline Sallette
    Céline Sallette
    • Lady in Waitingas Lady in Waiting
    André Oumansky
    André Oumansky
    • Cardinal de la Roche Aymonas Cardinal de la Roche Aymon
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      • Sofia Coppola
    • Writer
      • Sofia Coppola
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      There is a scene towards the end of the movie shows many princes and princesses of the blood saying farewell to the Queen before fleeing the country, including her two favorite companions, the Duchesse de Polignac and the Princesse de Lamballe. The real Duchesse de Polignac did take refuge in Switzerland. Princesse de Lamballe did initially leave the royal family for safety in England, but returned later at the request of Marie Antoinette after she and her family were caught trying to escape. She remained with the royal family until her own arrest. After refusing to sign an oath renouncing the monarchy, she was mutilated and beheaded, and her head was mounted on a pike and paraded past the prison window of the doomed Queen.
    • Goofs
      When Marie Antoinette is first presented to the French royal family, Aunt Victoire is holding a pekingese. This breed was unknown in Europe until a hundred years later when British forces successfully invaded China in the Second Opium War and five pekingese belonging to the Chinese Emperor's aunt, who had committed suicide as the British troops advanced on the Forbidden City while the rest of the Imperial family fled, were brought back to Britain, where one was presented to Queen Victoria, who named it Looty.
    • Quotes

      Marie-Antoinette: [to her first-born, a daughter] Oh, you were not what was desired, but that makes you no less dear to me. A boy would have been the Son of France, but you, Marie Thérèse, shall be mine.

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: The Prestige/Flicka/Marie Antoinette/A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
    • Soundtracks
      Natural's Not In It
      Written by Dave Allen, Hugo Burnham, Andy Gill (as Andrew Gill) & Jon King

      Performed by Gang of Four

      Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records Inc.

      By Arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

      And Courtesy of EMI Records Ltd.

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    8/10
    A sensory delight
    Based on the recent Marie-Antoinette biography by Antonia Fraser, Sofia Coppola's film focuses on the personal qualities of the character of Marie-Antoinette and thus participates in the character's historical rehabilitation. Antoinette is seen as a respectful loyal daughter, a loving mother, a patient wife, who had to withstand a flood of vindictive criticism since the moment she set foot in the French court. This depiction contrasts strongly with many prior representations of the character in film ("The Affair of the Necklace" for example), which show her as superficial, selfish and vain.

    The visuals and auditory elements, which evoke a powerful image of 18th-century Versailles, are the movie's forte. And their effects linger in one's mind (or at least they did in mine) long after one's exit from the theater. As a budding art historian, I was stunned by the intensely lush visual spectacle the film has to offer: the pomp and circumstance of ritualized and regimented 18th-century Versailles. The semi-private world that Antoinette builds for herself to escape Versailles's codified, quasi-totalitarian atmosphere, is evoked through a sequence of fast-moving images of champagne-guzzling, beautifully-decorated cake-eating, and Manolo Blahnik shoe buying. Thus Antoinette's fantasy world is likened to a world recognizable to you, me and Carrie Bradshaw. Some people may scoff at this 21st century world transposed to an earlier time. But as the center of the world in 18th-century Europe, Marie-Antoinette's "secret Versailles" would certainly have been as "hip" as this, and Coppola has found effective means through sound and image by which to make this hipness accessible.

    The story zooms in on the character of Marie-Antoinette, played by a ravishing Kirsten Dunst, who arrives at Versailles at the tender age of 14, to become queen of France a mere 5 years later. Coppola emphasizes the loneliness of Antoinette throughout the film: most important is her alienation from the French court by the fact that she is a foreigner (something that made her a scapegoat for all of France's problems during the 1780's). Her powerlessness to "fit in" is emphasized also through her sexual alienation from her socially-awkward husband (played by Jason Schwartzmann), her mother's chidings that she has not yet produced an heir to the French throne (and thereby has not secured Austria's political place in Europe), and the bitchy gossip that goes on behind her back at court.

    Marie-Antoinette is depicted as an intensely personable, friendly and playful person. Coppola fashions a Marie-Antoinette who is a dutiful daughter, a patient wife to Louis (who eventually overcomes his shyness and becomes a loving and protective husband and father), and a caring and tender mother. She is shown as both bold and humble, two qualities which had quasi-miraculous effects on both the court and the angry mob, as is shown in some of the film's most touching moments.

    Equipped with these "essential" personal qualities, the charges traditionally made against Marie-Antoinette fade completely. It is precisely Antoinette's ill-fated attempt at fitting into French court society that causes her escape into a world of idle futility and libertinage. Her escape into the world of "playing shepherdess" in her pleasure-house of Le Hameau is shown not as a silly escape from responsibility but as the simple human need to be surrounded by the natural world. This place appears to us as it does to Antoinette: as a refuge from the backbiting, totalitarian regime of Versailles. Even the legendary "let them eat cake" statement allegedly made by Marie-Antoinette is discarded as fiction.

    There is almost no place in the film for the 18th-century reality as it existed outside the bubble-like world of Versailles. This is not the movie's purpose. The end of the film is a bit abrupt: the last image shows the royal family heading to Paris to be imprisoned in the building of the Conciergerie. There is no mention of the guillotine anywhere, which again can seem surprising, but which shows that Coppola deliberately tried to eschew stereotypes and do something different. And it is all to her credit.
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    • Why did Sofia Coppola choose to base the film specifically on Antonia Fraser's book?
    • Why was Marie Antoinette the only one who wanted to clap at the opera? (and why the second time we see her clapping, no one else would?)

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    • Release date
      • October 20, 2006 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • France
      • Japan
    • Languages
      • English
      • Latin
      • French
    • Also known as
      • María Antonieta, la reina adolescente
    • Filming locations
      • Chateau de Versailles, Versailles, Yvelines, France
    • Production companies
      • Columbia Pictures
      • Pricel
      • Tohokushinsha Film Corporation (TFC)
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    • Budget
      • $40,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $15,962,471
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $5,361,050
      • Oct 22, 2006
    • Gross worldwide
      • $60,917,189
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 3 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • SDDS
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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