‘Misunderstood masterpiece’ movie that’s gained an Oscar now accessible on Netflix | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

A ‘dazzling’ movie that gained an Oscar and has a cult following is now accessible on Netflix. Marie Antoinette is a 2006 historic drama movie written, directed, and produced by Sofia Coppola.

Based on the 2001 biography Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser, the movie chronicles Marie Antoinette’s life within the years main as much as the French Revolution. It gained the Oscar for Best Costume Design, gained two awards at Cannes, and was nominated for 3 BAFTAs. The movie stars Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette, alongside an ensemble forged, which incorporates Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne, Asia Argento, Molly Shannon, Shirley Henderson, Danny Huston, Steve Coogan, and Jamie Dornan in his movie debut. Coppola stated her extremely stylised interpretation was intentionally very fashionable to humanise the historic figures concerned. She admitted to taking nice creative liberties with the supply materials, and stated that the movie doesn’t focus merely on historic info – “It is not a lesson of history. It is an interpretation documented, but carried by my desire for covering the subject differently.”

Although it was filmed at Versailles, to capture the splendour of eighteenth-century royal life, some critics took issue with or did not understand why Coppola intermixed period music with contemporary music, for instance, using soundtracks by artists such as the Cure and the Strokes, or why she intermixed modern products, such as Converse sneakers, with formal period shoes.

Although one historian explains that while they may be distracting, “additionally they convey the rebelliousness of a younger lady, annoyed, bored, remoted, and but at all times on show.” It has also been called a “misunderstood masterpiece” by the Pinnland Empire.

Marie Antoinette received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics. The film holds an approval rating of 57% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 218 reviews with an average rating of 6.10/10.

The website’s critics consensus states, “Lavish imagery and a daring soundtrack set this movie other than most interval dramas; actually, model utterly takes priority over plot and character growth in Coppola’s imaginative and prescient of the doomed queen.”

Roger Ebert gave the film four stars out of four. He stated that, “each criticism I’ve learn of this movie would alter its fragile magic and cut back its romantic and tragic poignancy to the extent of an tutorial movie.

“This is Sofia Coppola’s third movie centering on the loneliness of being feminine and surrounded by a world that is aware of easy methods to use you however not easy methods to worth and perceive you.”

In the French trade journal, Le Film Francais, a third of the critics gave it their highest rating—”worthy of the Palme d’Or”, the best award on the Cannes Film Festival.

Marie Antoinette is now accessible to look at on Netflix.