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Marie Antoinette
EMAILPRINTColumbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 37 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: Sofia Coppola
Directed by: Sofia Coppola
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 20, 2006
DVD: February 13, 2007
Running Time: 123 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Language(s): French / English
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for sexual content, partial nudity and innuendo
Starring Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne, Asia Argento, Molly Shannon, Shirley Henderson, Danny Huston, and Steve Coogan
Sofia Coppola brings to the screen a fresh interpretation of the life of legendary teenage queen Marie Antoinette, France's most misunderstood monarch. (Sony)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Coppola brilliantly conjures the young queen's insular world, in which she was both isolated and claustrophobically scrutinized.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
Marie Antoinette gives a wide berth to the conventions of period dramas, especially their time-capsule remove, and instead tries to mainline the singular personal experience of the arch-villainess of French history (and freedom history, for that matter). The result is a startlingly original and beautiful pop reverie that comes very close to being transcendent.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
A gorgeous confection, packed with gargantuan gowns and pornographic displays of pastrystuffs, Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is also a sharp, smart look at the isolation, ennui and supercilious affairs of the rich, famous and famously pampered.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
With lyrical intelligence and scrappy wit, Coppola creates a luscious world to get lost in. It's a pleasure.
Read Full Review >New York Post Kyle Smith
Coppola works in weird ways, but the real Versailles was so much weirder.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Destined to become this year's love-it-or-hate-it movie. Is it OK to say I merely liked it a lot?
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Coppola's stranded royal suggests that at heart, Marie Antoinette was just a simple girl who wanted to have fun, and got her head handed to her.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
A thoroughly modern confection, blending insouciance and sophistication, heartfelt longing and self-conscious posing with the guileless self-assurance of a great pop song. What to do for pleasure? Go see this movie, for starters.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
Coppola captures the luxe insularity of Marie Antoinette's world in a way that leaves no doubt why the revolution had to happen. The picture's final image is a moment of devastating stillness that wouldn't be out of place in Luchino Visconti's end-of-an-era masterpiece "The Leopard."
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
In the revisionist Marie Antoinette, writer-director Sofia Coppola and actress Kirsten Dunst take a remote and no doubt misunderstood historical figure, the controversial and often despised Queen of France at the time of the French Revolution, and brings her into sharp focus as a living, breathing human being with flaws, foibles, passions, intelligence and warm affections.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman
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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Jessica Reaves
It's true that this sugarcoated romp doesn't take itself, or its source material, particularly seriously, but if you're confident your grasp of European history can withstand the assault of two hours of bubbly entertainment, Marie Antoinette guarantees you a good time.
Read Full Review >Premiere Aaron Hillis
Marie Antoinette churns a symphony out of a single note, too light and hermetically sealed in the minds of Coppola and her queen to transcend its artfully cared-for fluffiness.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Ultimately, Coppola's pastel-colored take on Marie's life is beguiling and annoying in equal measure.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
As art, the movie is neither shallow nor profound, just inconsequential. Yet Coppola is too clever a filmmaker to dismiss the movie out of hand. If her film is mostly surface then she skims with style.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Coppola and her crew were allowed to shoot at Versailles -- family pedigree does pay dividends, apparently -- which gives the film a needed whiff of reality.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
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.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
The cast is uniformly non-French, and restrained to the point of rigor mortis. Dunst is the movie's strongest and weakest element. Her natural charm carries us through the scenery, at the same time her distinct Americanness rings false in every scene.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
For all the technical beauty of Marie Antoinette, there's nobody at home at Versailles.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Coppola won't win any Oscars, but the movie is a contender for cinematography, costumes and production design, and it's a lock for Prettiest Pastries.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ella Taylor
Precious little history of any kind shows its face in Marie Antoinette. The omission is strategic.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
A graceful, charming, and sometimes witty confection -- at least for its first hour.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
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.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker Anthony Lane
The one, transfixing virtue of Marie Antoinette is its unembarrassed devotion to the superficial. There is no morality at play here, no agony other than boredom, and, until the last half hour, not a shred of political sense. The fun dies out of the film--in fact, the film itself expires--when Coppola suddenly starts dragging in discussions of the American Revolution.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Despite the dominant air of foolishness, the filmmaking is lush, lively and intelligent, but the gap between the direction and the script is appalling.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
Here's one thing about Marie Antoinette: It sure is easy to watch. And here's another: It's even easier to forget.
Read Full Review >Wall Street Journal Joanne Kaufman
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.
USA Today Claudia Puig
With its ho-hum performances, muddled point of view, inert plot and pedestrian writing, all that's left to appreciate are the sumptuous costumes, elaborate hairstyles and rococo production design, which are not enough to sustain any movie, even one set in the gilded splendor of Versailles.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
It's a daring move, focusing on the isolated splendor and interior dramas, and letting the politics remain at most a distant rumble; Coppola deserves credit for offering a different, and probably truer, perspective on life as a royal. But the perspective rarely lends itself to compelling filmmaking.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Coppola based her script on a revisionist biography by Antonia Fraser, though the film reads most poignantly as a personal statement; like Marie, the director was born to a life of privilege and carries the burden of a proud family legacy.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
Writer-director Coppola and her production team have gotten the look of the late 18th century right...But they've gotten almost everything else wrong.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
Three adjectives spring to mind when describing Marie Antoinette: odd, irritating, and tedious.
Read Full Review >Slate Dana Stevens
Like licorice, Marie Antoinette is a confection you either love or hate, and both affects seem tied to your feeling about the director herself and her apparent identification with Louis XVI's bride. For my part, I can definitely say that I love licorice and hate Marie Antoinette. But I'm still wrestling with the enigma of Sofia Coppola.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Coppola has no trouble convincing viewers that Marie Antoinette is an interesting historical subject, but there's a big distance between that and creating a fascinating personality or fashioning a compelling narrative.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.0 (out of 10) based on 251 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Tom M. gave it a3:
Before seeing this film I had read that audiences at Cannes booed and jeered repeatedly during its showing and later audiences in French moviehouses fround the ting so absurd it elicited hysterical laughing. Frankly, those responses played a role in my wanting to see the thing, hoping to be pleasantly surprised by an unorthodox treatment similar to a Ken Russell treatment of Mozart. No banana, folks. This movie is so inane, you might find yourself, as I did, cringing in embarrassment at the vacuous attempts at convincing us that Marie and Louie were,,,well...vacuous. And the soundtrack defys explanation. Is Ms. Coppola trying to say something about the decadence of the pre-Bastille oligarchy or her own dislike of 20th Century New Wave pop-rock music by marrying the two? The combination of the two contributes to the overall hokiness of this hokey flop.
Barbara A. gave it a10:
It appears only certain people see the extraordinary intelligence and nuances of this movie. It is one of my favorites.
Casey P. gave it a10:
I loved this film. if you are into art, and history this is a great film to see. it captures the life of Antoinette and how young she was and was prosecuted for not being able to run a country when she was too young to even know who she was.
Roberta Z. gave it a1:
Aesthetically perfect; depiction of characters horribly superficial, void, really incomprehensible.
Kevin F. gave it a1:
If you watch this movie, you will die of dysentery.
Peter J. gave it a3:
I may be a bit harsh, but I was bored out of my mind. I stopped the movie, and then read her Wiki entry. It was more fulfilling.
Elise G gave it a10:
This movie was amazing. I liked that it wasn't a historical piece, but a kind-of colorful bibliography. I found myself researching M.A after, and thinking how unfair her life was. I think the soundtrack is genius, and it works. It was so bold. Especially the "I want candy" scene. My fave!
