All style, no substance. But what style!

Rating: 5/10 (6 April 2015)

Like Royalty itself, Sofia Coppola's 'Marie Antoinette' is a beautiful but incredibly shallow film. With its anachronistic 80s New Wave soundtrack fueled montages (which I loved), it often feels like a Cameron Crowe or John Hughes movie.
Kirsten Dunst is simply radiant as the title character, but the material is so wafer thin that there's not much for her to do except play dress-up and look stunning. Unfortunately her co-star Jason Schwartzman is woefully miscast as the young king of France. The rest of the cast--with soon to be stars like Tom Hardy and Jamie Dornan--do what they can with their two dimensional characters.
'Marie Antoinette' is a terrible bit of history and a vapid piece of drama, but it sure is pretty to look at.