Lush, intimate and compulsively watchable, this Coppola family affair bottles the fleeting nature of time and invites us to the ultimate Versailles party.
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Mubi With its lush costumes, decadent food spreads and playfully anachronistic soundtrack, Sofia Coppola’s gorgeous 2006 film “Marie Antoinette” is a phenomenon of the aughts, a kaleidoscopic yet emotionally dark foray into youthful isolation and, like much of the filmmaker’s work, the bubble of privilege and celebrity. But while Coppola was making her third feature, what was gently shaping around her was hardly lonesome and gloomy. The pressure of a massive set with unprecedented access to Versailles and an intimidating production budget was alleviated by the presence and support of her family: her late mother Eleanor in particular, who was there to capture nearly 80 hours of behind-the-scenes footage to make something of it in the future.
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