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| Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette |
An edgy modern-rock soundtrack isn’t your only clue that
this isn’t going to be the standard(read stuffy) re-telling of France’s fated
final queen. Given the virtual “keys” to the storied Palace at Versailles,
director Sofia Coppola zeroes in on the Austrian-born “teen queen” who quickly
warmed to the excesses of the French court (there are literally gobs of cakes
and other foods) and even managed to charm her cold fish of a husband into
consummating their marriage and impregnate her (alas, its a girl). Even though
Coppola injects a modern, quirky, even anachronistic tone, the pall of certain
doom is inescapable. It certainly doesn’t undermine the acting, which is
excellent across the board, especially from Dunst, in the title role, but also
from Jason Schwartzman as Louis XVI, lost in his own world and very
comfortable.
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