For instance, Bow Wow Wow's version of the Johnny Mercer-Rube Bloom evergreen 'Fools Rush In' is played as Marie returns from a masked ball where she has met her future lover, Swedish Count Fersen. It also logically follows that everyone will pronounce 'Monsieur' as if addressing Monsewer Eddie Gray of the Crazy Gang, and that in addition to a dash of Rameau there'll be modern pop songs on the soundtrack.

For this conception of Marie as an airhead with hidden brains and attitude, Kirsten Dunst is perfect casting. And it treats her as if she was a wilful 20th-century American teenager suddenly inducted into a European royal family as in the movie The Princess Diaries. The film is a throwback to the semi-autobiographical Life Without Zoe, the embarrassingly self-indulgent segment of New York Stories (1989) about spoilt rich kids living in Manhattan luxury that Coppola wrote for her father to direct and for which she also designed the lavish costumes.Īll fancy costumes and chocolate-box images, Marie Antoinette traces the career of the eponymous queen from her arrival in France in 1877 at the age of 14 to marry the future Louis XVI up to the Revolution. Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, a grave disappointment after her Lost in Translation, does not join their company. I n recent years, there have been several memorable movies set in late 18th-century Europe that appeal to people normally allergic to costume pictures - Leconte's Ridicule, Hytner's The Madness of King George, Rohmer's The Lady and the Duke.

Marie antoinette 2006 soundtrack