Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette has been incredibly panned in some of the popular press, but most reviewers and students of film will find this as an incredible journey and a feast for the eyes. Sophia Coppola has yet to make a bad film, and along with The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation this film is wonderful. Kirsten Dunst is wonderful along with Jason Schwartzman and a surprisingly god perfomnace by Marianne Faithful. The rest of the cast is endearing, angry, catty, and charming all at once. The costumes are amazing, as to be expected, and there are thousands of them. I was surprised at how much I liked this film, not because I expected it to be bad, but just because I expected it to be something it wasn't. That seems to be the core of the general confusion surrounding the film. It isn't at all what you expect, and therein lies part of the brilliance.
If you enjoy film I urge you to see Marie Antoinette. It won't be what you expect.
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