My queen is Sofia Coppola

Rating: 10/10 (3 January 2010)

Of course for the people who are obsessed with historical inaccuracies, Marie Antoinette is a so so movie. I seriously get bored of this, for every war movie almost and also historical movies, people say historically inaccurate! This is disturbing to me, because the thing they missed is the movie itself, cinema! Sofia Coppola made a movie that includes no cliché and besides unconventional a bit which most people don't like. It costs her, some critics and audiences criticize her movie very harshly, did not appreciate. As for me, Lost in Translation was a very good movie, but Marie Antoinette is her best work. After Lost in Translation, I thought that she was a very good director, but after Marie Antoniette, I think that even if she is not a master, she is a great director. The Other Boleyn Girl. The Duchess. Why such movies have been appreciated? Because they met the expectations of many people that I can call mass audience. Unfaithfulness, cheating, forbidden love, betrayal. All the clichés and material which get people's, especially women's interest. Every time the same story, love triangles, a heavy story telling, everyone falls in love with each other, a man loves a woman and another woman loves this man or a man loves a woman, but later she falls in love with another man, like a boring and vicious cycle. Returning to Marie Antoinette, Kirsten Dunst is the best choice for this role and I applaud her for her extemporary acting. This character is also an anti cliché figure. Marie Antoinette is not like the women in The Sex and The City, so she does not always think of sex or shopping, shopping or sex. She is not like typical college girls, she is not fickle, she is not giddy, she is different from the girls in Tarantino's Death Proof who send and take messages night and day and always prate about their doings and men. Therefore, I loved this character. Marie Antoinette looks like a girl who tries to benefit from the boons of the palace and enjoy. Another revolutionary point is the relationship between Antoinette and her husband. In the wedding night, we get that her husband is impotent, gay or does not love her at all, even hates her. He delays her almost every night (and this makes The Sex and The City fans angry) All these shows that besides a great director, she is a great script writer. As for direction, story telling and cinematography, since Barry Lyndon, there had not been such a mesmerizing and beautiful film. The scene which we see various candles, cakes and chocolates were elegant, the scene that Antoinette and her friends watch the rising of the sun, the opera scene, the phaeton scene which we hear a pop song and the scenes take place in the animal garden are my favorites, mesmerizing, but the other parts of the film are not different too. I know why its rating is extremely low, remember, ''historically inaccurate'' people.