“A lot of the bands in the early eighties had this kind of romantic idea of the 18th century,” she said. Coppola and Canonero chose to keep fairly accurate shapes and cuts for the costumes, but stylized them through ahistorical fabric and color choices.Ĭoppola looked to her own early interests when envisioning the world of the teen queen, famously including a pair of Converse sneakers in the “I Want Candy” sequence and modeling Count Axel von Fersen (Jamie Dornan) on Adam Ant.
The film’s wardrobe alone required a crew of 60, seven transport drivers, and ten rental houses near Versailles for storage and workspaces. Shoes for the film were designed by Manolo Blahnik, and costume designer Milena Canonero won her third Academy Award for her work on the film. (When not filming in Marie Antoinette’s actual bedroom, the crew used it as a storage room for their gear.) The Parisian bakery Ladurée provided the film’s plentiful pastries, mixing some authentic 18th century recipes with their trademark modern style of macarons.
Coppola was given unprecedented access to Versailles, refurnishing and shooting in the Petit Trianon, the “rustic” Hameau de la Reine, the palace, and its grounds. MARIE ANTOINETTE had a $40 million production budget and was shot from January to April 2005. “I guess the main objective when I thought of making the movie of her story,” Coppola said, “was not to make a big historical epic-the biography’s a huge story-and I wanted to really focus on trying to make more an impressionistic telling from her point of view, because so many of the stories about Marie Antoinette are people’s perceptions of her.” The script was sourced from Antonia Fraser’s Marie Antoinette: The Journey, and was written by Coppola with Kirsten Dunst in mind for the title role. Sofia Coppola lets the queen eat frosting from a cupcake as an anachronistic French maid slides on her bubblegum pink kitten heels in the opening shot of 2006’s MARIE ANTOINETTE, while Gang of Four declares one of the film’s central concerns: “the problem of leisure, what to do for pleasure.” From there, Coppola creates an idiosyncratic and iconoclastic celebration of visual pleasure-what Fiona Handyside called a “willful embrace of superficiality and frivolity”-but does so in a way that constantly calls audience expectations and desires into focus and into question. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne, Asia Argento, Molly Shannon, Shirley Henderson, Danny Huston, Jamie Dornan, Tom Hardy, Mathieu Amalric, and Steve Coogan Introduction by Pierre Saint-Amand and Archer Neilsonĭirected by sofia Coppola (2006) 123 mins
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