Wednesday, October 18, 2006


Academy Award-winning screenwriter and Oscar nominated director Sofia Coppola, 21st century movie about an 18th Century legend -- MARIE ANTOINETTE. Oscar winner Sofia Coppola brings to the screen a fresh interpretation of the life of France's legendary teenage queen MARIE ANTOINETTE. Betrothed to King Louis XVI, the naïve Marie Antoinette at the age of 14, she is thrown into the opulent French court which is steeped in conspiracy and scandal. Alone, without guidance, and adrift in a dangerous world, the young Marie Antoinette rebels against the isolated atmosphere at Versailles and, in the process, becomes France's most misunderstood monarch. Often maligned, passionately debated and ultimately a misunderstood young woman, Marie Antoinette, through Coppola's vision, emerges neither as staid historical villain nor divine idol -- but as a confused and lonely teenage outsider thrust against her will into a decadent and scandal-plagued world on the eve of disaster. Kirsten Dunst stars as the youthful princess whose fateful life became the stuff of myth and legend. Whether she is being idealized for her impeccable style or vilified for being unforgivably out of touch with her subjects, reaction to Marie Antoinette is always extreme. Yet, slowly, as she matures, she begins to find her way as a wife, mother and Queen -- only to be tragically swept up in a bloody revolution that alters France forever.