Marie Antoinette

Rating: 7/10 (19 August 2007)

Unlike many, many other people I liked this film. Sofia Coppola's follow-up to "The Virgin Suicides" and "Lost in Translation" bears her trademark again: The exact examination of human feelings through often tiny aspects of one's personality. Underlay this with great modern melancholy pop classics and you have a mixture of high class. The first half of this movie is so great again, I absolutely loved it. And although nothing really changes after the first half it drags on a little bit too long in the end. The film doesn't tell a big story, but nevertheless a great one. This is definitely a movie where the fault for the bad reviews (at least for the very bad) lies in wrong expectations. I've never liked Kirsten Dunst better in a movie, she was absolutely amazing. Sofia Coppola has a sixth sense for transforming feelings into on-screen pictures, this makes her one of my favourite directors. There are not many directors where a lesser film is as interesting, fresh and good as "Marie Antoinette". I can't wait for her next project.