There's not much story to speak of here; Marie Anoinette gets married, doesn't enjoy the strictures of the French court but gets used to it and lives a decadent and unreflected life, lots of cake and nice dresses, she does all this to a poorly integrated soundtrack of post-punk pop hits.
So Sofia Coppola has made another film about how terribly difficult it is to be an over-privileged young woman (biographical much?). We never see anything outside a very small world. The script, such as it is, could be lifted straight from a film set in 2006 so what's the point in setting this in France on the cusp of revolution? Well mainly so that Vivienne Westwood can really go to town on the costume designs, undoubtedly the films saviour.
The whole film is infected with the dullness and emptiness of it's characters who the cast largely fail to bring to life. There were points at which I though, "this is supposed to be some comment on celebrity or something" but most of the time such comments are banal and really this is a poorly made film which luckily has some nice costumes in it. Also confirmed my suspicions that Kirsten Dunst really isn't a very good actress.
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