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"Marie Antoinette", de Sofia Coppola, estreou-se ontem nas salas de cinema portuguesas. Conta com Kirsten Dunst ("Homem-Aranha", "Elizabethtown") e Jason Schwartzman ("Uma Rapariga Cheia de Sonhos") nos principais papéis.

Queen Bees

Sofia Coppola and Marie Antoinette have a lot in common.
By Dana Stevens
Posted Thursday, Oct. 19, 2006, at 6:06 PM ET

Sofia Coppola is the Veruca Salt of American filmmakers. She's the privileged little girl in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory whose father, a nut tycoon, makes sure his daughter wins a golden ticket to the Willie Wonka factory by buying up countless Wonka bars, which his workers methodically unwrap till they find the prize. If Coppola's 2004 Academy Award for best original screenplay for Lost in Translation was her golden ticket to big-budget filmmaking, Marie Antoinette is her prize, a $40 million tour through the lush and hallucinatory candy land of 18th-century France. Of course, Roald Dahl's insufferable Veruca Salt was eventually seized by angry squirrels and hurled down a garbage chute. Will Coppola suffer a similar fate when Marie Antoinette opens this Friday?

Para ler em Slate - Movies

God Save the Queen

The critical buzz on Marie Antoinette

By Doree Shafrir

Updated Friday, Oct. 20, 2006, at 1:55 PM ET

Marie Antoinette (Columbia). The critics are split over Sofia Coppola's interpretation of the short life of the French queen, played by Kirsten Dunst, though many note the film's strangely apolitical nature. In the New York Times, A.O. Scott reads meaning into Coppola's confectionary portrait: "Beneath its highly decorated surface is an examination, touched with melancholy as well as delight, of what it means to live in a world governed by rituals of acquisition and display." But The New Yorker's Anthony Lane is less captivated by the film's unabashed superficiality, noting, "There is no morality at play here, no agony other than boredom, and, until the last half hour, not a shred of political sense." In New York magazine, David Edelstein dismisses the film as "basically the story of a little lost rich girl who becomes a party girl who becomes a national disgrace—in an utter vacuum." Slate's Dana Stevens takes the strongest stance against Coppola's version of events. "Just because the film's heroine has nothing to say about politics, revolutionary or otherwise, doesn't justify Coppola being similarly dumbstruck."

Para ler em Slate - Summary Judgement

Marie Antoinette

Sofia Coppola has never been partial to narrative -- her films "The Virgin Suicides" and "Lost in Translation" are miniaturist masterpieces of atmosphere and emotional tone -- but with "Marie Antoinette," she proves that she can tell a story. Kirsten Dunst plays the notorious French queen, whose engagement at age 14 to King Louis XVI was less a betrothal than a geopolitical merger.

-- Ann Hornaday (Oct. 19, 2006)

Para ler em The Washington Post - National Movies