A shallow film about shallow people

Rating: 3/10 (26 May 2006)

There are deep films about shallow people like La Dolce Vita, there are films that probe beneath the rituals of the court like The Rise of Louis XIV, there are films that are rather sympathetic to Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI but have a political and historical dimension like La Marseillaise, but Coppola's film is a shallow film about shallow people, it reveals only the surface rituals of the court, and is a bubble-head's view of history and politics. The revolution is just 'noises off' in the last ten minutes. However, the film is easy on the eye, less easy on the ear and very easy on the brain. I still Coppola is talented, but needs to make a film about less advantaged people next.