Just a (nice) shell

Rating: 8/10 (22 September 2010)

It's luxuriant, colourful, bright. It's a visual delight. A musical feast too. That's it. The story doesn't speak to me. Or almost not. I should not have tenderness for those two young persons who were not fit for governance but had to embrace the role. I am reluctant to this. But I do have. I guess it's Sofia Coppola's talent striking again. The story is still though too far from me for this film to become my favourite Sofia Coppola. So I will remember "Marie-Antoinette" as "just" an aesthetic orgasm. A cinematographic sweet: leaves you a nice taste but does not fulfil your emotional needs nor feed your mind. I know it is not very nice from me to expect a director to go on with the kind of films s/he used us to, but really, Sofia, if you could keep it up with the sad and the bittersweet, that would be amazing.