Classic case of a Missed opportunity!

Rating: 1/10 (10 April 2007)

I waited for over a year to see this much anticipated movie! Marie Antoinette was suppose to be the last remainning gem needed to crown Sofia as one of the best current Hollywood directors , instead it may have turned out to be her "Heaven's Gate". The movie is just a dumbfest! Sofia tells a story about absolutely nothing! She opted to disregard any historical or cultural reference of the time that may actually be relevant to our current lives! The movie is all about mood, and costums, It doesn't try to achieve anything,and it doesn't really try to entertain either! I read somewhere that before the movie started principal photography, Francis Ford actually told Sofia to go out there and make the movie she wanted to make!It became so tedious and painful to watch that after awhile I started to look forward to the beaheading of the young queen and maybe with a little luck the French too would get the head of Sofia Coppola and the producers of this travesty! (WHishfull thinking I guess) It just sounds to me like daddys little girl from pot smoking mtv generation is pissing Hollywood's money away and missing in the process a great opportunity to educate people around the world about important historical events that may or may not have helped shape the world we live in today! Kirstin Dunst is terrific as the tittle character in spite of Sofia Coppola's shortcomings. The movie is a great music video at best!Thats probably what she should stick with! I will never see a Movied directed by Sofia Coppola ever again, even if they pay me to! I suggest to those intelligent exe at the major studios never to finance any proyect with the name Sofia Coppola attached to it, assuming they want to keep their high paying jobs!