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Marie Antoinette : 4 of 5
8.13.2007 7:20 AM \| Link	When I first saw the cool teaser trailer for this movie, I really wanted to catch it at the theater, since I'm such a big fan of Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, but somehow I completely missed it. Thankfully I remembered to rent the DVD, and I really enjoyed he film! It's amazing how such a completely different kind of movie can have the same feel as Sofia's other work, but she pulls it off really well. I knew almost nothing about the history of the real Marie Antoinette and the French Revolution, so the story was really interesting to me, and I can definitely see why it was appealing to the director, since it's about a girl stuck in an unfamiliar world (she was originally from Austria) at the wrong time. While the entire movie is shot in France in the actual places these people once lived, the movie still has some wonderful modern touches to make these characters come to life for today's audiences (like me), such as brighter color palettes, some modern language touches (no heavy French accents), and most of all, the incredible soundtrack (which I must buy immediately!), filled with punk-ish pop hits that really convey the party lifestyle that Marie participated in. One of the best examples is the masked ball scene, where everyone is dancing to Siouxsie and the Banshees in their period costumes, yet it completely works, since the audience would have no sense of the decadence if they were rocking out to a harpsichord! Although it didn't have the same impact on me as Lost in Translation, I still completely enjoyed this movie, and I'm looking forward to Sofia's next project. Labels: dvds


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