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MARIE ANTOINETTE Series: The 44th New York Film Festival [Sept 29 - Oct 15 2006] Director: Sofia Coppola, Country: USA, Release: 2006, Runtime: 123 After her enormous success with Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola composes on a far grander canvas with this dazzlingly unconventional movie. Kirsten Dunst stars as Marie Antoinette, the innocent Viennese who is given in marriage to France’s Louis XVI (Jason Schwartzman). Rather than turn this doomed queen’s life into another by-the-numbers bio-pic, Coppola gives the story an exuberant twist, capturing the hallucinatory texture of her subject’s inner life with everything from breathtaking costumes and settings (the film is a triumph of feminine style) to the deliberately anachronistic use of early 80’s pop music. In the process, this seductively sumptuous movie transforms an 18th Century tale into a sly, absolutely contemporary vision of the cocoon that is 21st Century celebrity, where the rich and famous spend their time shopping, indulging every desire and embracing every fashionable idea, blissfully oblivious to outside reality. Screening at Alice Tully Hall, north side of 65th Street west of Broadway.

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