Pure grace

Rating: 9/10 (13 May 2007)

Five months passed from my first (and only) showing of "Marie Antoinette". Five months didn't help me to forget this film. It has been maltreated and misunderstood by the critics, ignored by all the main awards (just some award to the costumes and to the art direction), but it doesn't mean it's a bad film. I'm a 15 years old teenage girl, and I can understand really well the young Austriac princess arrived to give happiness to France, held captive by an unsatisfactory, unconsummated (for seven years) marriage and by a golden royal palace, Versailles, full of fun and gossips, victim of an unlucky destiny. Thanks to the brilliant and underrated interpretation of Kirsten Dunst, I lived over again the anxiety, the frustration, the hope, the unbridled fun, the resignation, the dreamed and denied love for an handsome Swedishman. I appreciated Sofia Coppola's great sensitiveness not showing the guillotine: it's enough to see a destroyed Versailles room to realize the end of a world. And then, how can't you love the raging and effervescent soundtrack?