Combination of exquisite period detail with New Wave music...?

Rating: 9/10 (13 November 2008)

I was so conflicted about this aspect of the film--Coppola's combining of the apparently well-researched costumes (except for the hair toward the end and at Petit Trianon--the giant wigs were NOT that popular in what was pointed out, the time of Mozart!) and frolicking in palace halls and meadows, among other places.
I love New Order and The Cure...well probably at least as much as Sofia, but it jarred here. Maybe I'm just the fuddy-duddy type who wants to see my costume dramas with the appropriate music (which she did well in the coronation scenes), and leave the techno-pop to films like "Blade Runner" and "The Wedding Singer" (both of which I adore!).
They made much of Mozart yet we heard only a little. You would think that, as one who who had MET the young composer, and whose brother loved his music, Marie would have wanted more. She probably DID...but Sofia had other, radical ideas.
I say, save them for the sequel to "Lost in Translation" (another fave), in which Bill Murray and Scarlett Johannsen once again cross paths in some far flung, bizarre corner of the world, as did Sigourney Weaver and Mel Gibson in "The Year of Living Dangerously".
Don't mistake me; I thoroughly enjoyed this film, but not the way I enjoyed, say, "Emma" or "A Room With A View". It was far more as a sometimes student of the Enlightenment, a person mildly interested in the French Revolution, but above all, someone who insists that the director and production designers "GET IT RIGHT"! If I'm not mistaken, in the famous, "I Want Candy" Shoe scene (now utterly ruined by promos by the god-awful "Starter Wife"--UGH!--I could swear I saw a pair of lace-up, high-top Chuck Taylors? Am I imagining things? To be sure, I'm shocked that Sting didn't show up with Sid Vicious in tow. If they HAD...I'd forgive all! They CAN do it if they want to.
Here's the proof: In the famous "I Love You/I know" scene in "The Empire StrikesBack" (before Han and the carbonite)...my kid noticed, at age FOUR, that in one shot, Han Solo wears a black vest and in the other,it's gone. He began saying, "Black vest...no black vest"! A FOUR-YEAR-OLD! Sofia...get it RIGHT, please!