SummarySofia Coppola brings to the screen a fresh interpretation of the life of legendary teenage queen Marie Antoinette, France's most misunderstood monarch. (Sony)
Directed By:Sofia Coppola
Written By:Sofia Coppola, Antonia Fraser
Marie Antoinette
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Generally Favorable
64
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
59% Positive
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27% Mixed
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100
Kristen Dunst is pitch-perfect in the title role.
88
Coppola works in weird ways, but the real Versailles was so much weirder.
User score
Generally Favorable
66% Positive
88 Ratings
88 Ratings
25% Mixed
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
9% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
Mar 23, 2021
10
Una gemma cinematografica profonda nei contenuti e sontuosa esteticamente, interpretata da una Kirsten Dunst in stato di grazia.
Aug 14, 2013
10
Love this movie, one of my favorites, love everything: Kirsten, the dresses, the acting, ESPECIALLY love Coppola for making my favorite movie. Why is that people don't like it? its perfect. Gorgeous. Delighting. I 've re watched it soooo many times
78
In casting an all-American Jersey girl and surrounding her with Manolo Blahniks and the Strokes, Coppola draws a connection between her audience (domestically, at least) and the doomed dauphine, who is likewise insulated and distracted from her country's pointless involvement in a disastrous foreign war that is bankrupting its government and starving its people – and all the while she spends, spends, spends.
70
This is one of the most immediate, personal costume dramas ever made, and so it's not unseemly to consider how the writer-director and her heroine overlap.
60
It is far from unpleasant to watch an attractive cast led by Kirsten Dunst parading around Versailles accoutered in Milena Canonero's luxuriant costumes to the accompaniment of catchy pop tunes. But the writer-director's follow-up to her breakthrough second feature, "Lost in Translation," is no more nourishing than a bonbon.
50
Viewed through a contemporary lens and set mostly to a score of '80s pop tunes, this highly stylized, self-conscious enterprise -- really, a music video -- posits the misunderstood and vilified Marie, née Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, as a figure in the mold of Diana, Princess of Wales.
10
Reports of boos at the film's debut at Cannes are more understandable now, not because Marie Antoinette is an inaccurate or indifferent look at French history (it is), but because it's self-indulgent shit. Booing - and beheading - are too good for it.
Nov 15, 2012
10
Everything about this movie screams a full rated revolution to a modern outlook on Marie, music, and France. The tone, the structure, and a strong lead provide an exquisite film.
Apr 11, 2019
6
This is so lavishly made its hard not to appreciate, the story is meh but the spectacle is impressive.
Nov 7, 2022
4
The movie is just a little bit silly, doesn't really seem to care about Marie Antoinette. Film is visually stunning, but honestly just a bit boring. It has no direction, barely follows her life, and is realistically repetitive. Took multiple days to watch this movie, couldn't bear to suffer all at once. This was not Kirsten Dunst's fault, it was the director. Dunst portrayed Antoinette quite beautifully. But as I said, the movie was outlandish, and goofy. As good as the visuals were, nothing can save a bad storyline.
May 4, 2021
3
This movie is nothing more than a self-indulgent bore that is more about style than it is about substance.
Aug 17, 2018
3
Une vision pas totalement dénuée d'intérêt de notre très défunte autrichienne Reine de France si délicatement incarnée par une Kirsten Dunst radieuse et magnifique, trop délaissée ici par notre bon Roi Louis le Seizième dépeint comme un nigaud et un maladroit, pour ne pas dire un benêt sévèrement et constamment à la masse ou presque. On sait que ce n'était pas vraiment le cas mais passons... Cela dit, Marie-Antoinette était tout aussi déconnectée de la réalité du peuple, oisive et "fashion victim" des éventails, coiffures, **** fours et coupes de champagne : la frivolité personnifiée. Lorsqu'on vit royalement à Versailles, comment pourrait-il en être autrement dans le cadre enchanteur si proche et en même temps si éloigné de Paris et de sa populace vociférante ? Le film de Sofia Coppola n'a certainement pas de prétention en matière d'exactitude historique (le contraire serait alarmant) mais se veut une sorte de nostalgie royaliste un brin décadente. Une esthétique très appréciable habite son film même si l'on est régulièrement choqué par l'ajout de musique moderne branchouille qui n'a rien à faire là. Tout cela est vaporeux et léger mais finit par lasser bien avant la première moitié du film : on est tellement lassé qu'on zappe alors la seconde moitié très répétitive qui escamote d'ailleurs presque totalement la Révolution et la fin de règne de ces têtes couronnées qui la perdront assez rapidement... C'est là une occasion manquée de mettre en opposition la vie volage avec les contingences d'un retour à la réalité révolutionnaire qui a dû être extrêmement brutal, psychologiquement parlant. Tout cela est éludé, hélas ! A noter que contrairement à ce que pensent les Américains, il n'y avait pas de gens de couleur à la Cour de France, non, non. Sur les galères oui mais pas à la Cour. Un film aussi volage, aussi futile que ses intentions, finalement trop superficielles pour faire le poids malgré la majesté des costumes et le souci de l'Etiquette. Kirsten y est superbe mais ne peut rien pour sauver le film de son naufrage dans les lenteurs, le superflu et le blingbling.
Production Company:
- Columbia Pictures
- Pricel
- Tohokushinsha Film Corporation (TFC)
- American Zoetrope
- Commission du Film France
- Commission du Film Île-de-France
Release Date:Oct 20, 2006
Duration:2 h 3 m
Rating:PG-13
Tagline:Let Them Eat Cake
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 1 Win & 5 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 3 Nominations




























