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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396159105
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: February 13, 2007
Running Time: 123 minutes
Sales Rank: 1597
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: October 20, 2006
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Academy Award® winner Sofia Coppola (2003 Best Writing Lost In Translation) directs an electrifying yet intimate re-telling of the turbulent life of history's favorite villainess Marie Antoinette. Kirsten Dunst portrays the ill-fated child princess who married France's young and indifferent King Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman). Feeling isolated in a royal court rife with scandal and intrigue Marie Antoinette defied both royalty and commoner by living like a rock star which served only to seal her fate.Features:Deleted scenes'Making-of' featuretteCribs with Louis XVI featurette - Jason Schwartzman gives viewers a tour of the Palace of VersaillesSystem Requirements:Run Time: 123 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 043396159105 Manufacturer No: 15910
Amazon.com:
While much was made of the fact that Marie Antoinette elicited boos at Cannes, the many favorable reviews attracted less attention. Inspired by Antonia Fraser's biography, Sofia Coppola fashions a portrait that's just as dreamy as The Virgin Suicides, her first literary adaptation, and the Oscar-winning Lost in Translation. Set to a soundtrack of post-punk (a conceit that adds more interest than resonance), the teenaged Marie (Kirsten Dunst, quite good) may be shallow, but she's rarely unsympathetic. The story begins in the late-18th century as the Austrian Archduchess agrees to marry Louis-Auguste (Jason Schwartzman). After bidding adieu to her mother, Maria Theresa (Marianne Faithfull), she travels to France, where King Louis XV (Rip Torn) sets the rules--and the list is endless (Judy Davis' Comtesse de Noailles is the primary enforcer). As for the Dauphin, he's just a boy, really, with more interest in his key collection than their marriage bed. Should Marie produce an heir, it might be enough to sustain her--since life is nothing but an endless shopping spree--but clouds gather on the horizon as an impoverished populace rises up against their extravagant leaders. Coppola merely suggests what happens next, although history paints a darker picture. Filmed in and around the Chateau of Versailles, Marie Antoinette is a riot of rustling gowns, sparkling jewels, and Manolo Blahnik-designed shoes. To say that style trumps substance does its maker a disservice, but the look of the thing does leave the deepest impression. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Extras from Marie Antoinette (click for larger image)
Featurette: On the filming of Marie Antoinette:
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Film Clip: 'The Introduction'
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Film Clip: 'The Royal Treatment'
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Stills from Marie Antoinette (click for larger image)
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Marie Antoinette: The Music Video
Before I start ripping into the substance of this film, I'll offer up some praise. Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette is nothing if not a visual feast; the sets, costumes and cinematography are sublime. The attention to detail is startling, right down to the gorgeous confections and pastries consumed by the Dauphine and her ladies-in-waiting. I also felt that Kirsten Dunst was cast rather well in this part. Her portrayal of Marie Antoinette is at least capable, at most sympathetic, even if she is speaking ... Read More
Rating:  - Good Movie
I really liked this movie. I enjoy learning more about history, and I enjoyed learning more about Marie Antoinette.
Rating:  - "Do you like it with ruffles or without?"
And such is the third film by Sofia Coppola in which we follow the lives of lost girls trying to find their way in the mismatched worlds they've been thrown into. In Virgin Suicides, there were the Lisbon sisters, strained by suburbia. In Lost in Translation, we had Charlotte, who'd rather karaoke-it-up with Bill Murray than listen to her husband drone about his photography shoot in neon-bright Tokyo. Now, she brings us the last Queen of France, most often linked to the classically obnoxious phrase "Let ... Read More
Rating: - This is NOT your history class!
I see many people complaining that the movie doesn't give much attention to the whole Revolution fuss. Of course, in a story dealing with Marie Antoinette, one would have expected the revolution to be the central point of it all. But this is the very differential of this movie: it gives you an intimate picture of the queen, her life and her reality - even if that reality was not in accordance to the one of her people. Not that it was good or right, but that's how it was. Period.
And that's what i liked ... Read More
Rating: - LUSCIOUSLY DONE, BUT A BIT WEAK ON SUBSTANCE
Nothing makes me happier than huge powdered wigs, beautiful gowns with wide farthingales, riding to hounds, fans, feathers, fruit, and fops. But there was way too much of that here. I almost overdosed on opulence. I got what director Sofia Coppola was trying to do, but I felt like I was watching today's Hollywood crew of "ne'er do wells": Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Nicole Richie, etc.
This movie was less about "Marie Antoinette" than it was about her husband's impotence (the result of a physical ... Read More
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