History without a cause

Rating: 4/10 (26 November 2006)

The photo is beautiful, but you can pick up any Vogue and get photo on the same level. It takes more to make a picture. It takes more to tell a story.
Kirsten Dunst is surely OK and the big surprise Marianne Faithful, as Maria Theresia, too. But there's no intention of giving us any psychology here. Not beyond that of a fairy tale. And the politics behind the French Revolution are only slightly touched. Sofia Coppola's intentions have of course been to show the court being above such things. But that intention isn't enough.
Besides. They talk much too good English at Versailles.