Marie Antoinette

Xx · January 20, 2007, 06:12:02 AM

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Pozer · January 20, 2007, 10:36:35 PM

was this your second viewing? in your first negative review from the end of december, you said you would wait for the dvd, so i was just curious.

Xx · January 21, 2007, 01:59:25 AM

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Pozer · January 21, 2007, 02:35:22 PM

oh. i disagree completely, but oh.

Xx · January 21, 2007, 03:30:22 PM

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Pozer · January 21, 2007, 03:36:00 PM

oh, i've never seen the film.

Pubrick · January 22, 2007, 10:17:51 AM

brilliant.

soixante · January 24, 2007, 04:56:33 PM

I saw it twice, and I loved it both times. I thought Dunst did a great job, as did Schwartzmann. Also, I thought there was sufficient narrative drive. In Robert McKee parlance, MA is an "education/disillusionment" plot. Most costume dramas don't engage me on on emotional level, but MA did.

There's a great review of MA in a recent issue of Film Comment.

Ghostboy · February 13, 2007, 03:14:33 PM

Eleanor Coppola's documentary on the DVD is short but really good.

Also, I guess I'm one of the few people who thinks that the original poster was better than the DVD cover -- that washed out grainy image and slightly hung over drunken leer was just marvelous.

picolas · February 13, 2007, 11:32:04 PM

having seen the movie i think the poster is a better representation. (i liked the movie quite a bit).

Ghostboy · February 13, 2007, 11:52:20 PM

I've been watching it all day, and realizing that I really love it, much more than I though I did after I first saw it. I think it's better than Lost In Translation, even. I think time will probably be very kind to it

Pwaybloe · February 14, 2007, 12:24:02 PM

Yeah, it was my favorite of the year by far. I meant to talk about this earlier, I swear.

While the Malick similarities are obvious (dropping in on conversations, floating camerwork, spiritual connection with nature, college panty raids, etc.), I still thought it was a brilliant movie.

Pozer · February 15, 2007, 12:06:54 PM

Quote from: Ghostboy on February 13, 2007, 11:52:20 PM
I've been watching it all day, and realizing that I really love it, much more than I though I did after I first saw it. I think it's better than Lost In Translation, even. I think time will probably be very kind to it

i really loved it too. i'd say ALMOST as much as lost in translation. there is practically NO dialogue for the first half of the movie which is quite nice. yeah, the malick and lyndon comparisons are legit, but something about it (referring to the minimum dialogue, giggles and facial expressions mostly) can't quite place what it is, but something makes it sofia's own.

SHAFTR · March 01, 2007, 02:22:05 PM

I have to agree with the critical consensus on Marie Antoinette. The film is beautiful, but overall it is pretty empty. I think the critical problem is that it takes a look at the least interesting part of Antoinette's life. I think Revolution > Execution would have resulted in a better film, and historically it is at this point that she starts to show some real character. I understand that we are supposed to understand that life for a teenage girl is similiar now then it was in the past, but when we are watching Marie play hide and go seek well into her 30s, it is embarassing.

I don't want it to sound like I disliked the film, I just thought it was a wash. It has some great moments, but ultimately it is sunk because of how uninteresting the main character is portrayed.