"Marie Antoinette": the rise of a queen through the eyes of a child.(Movie review)

From: Seattle Times (Seattle, WA) | Date: October 20, 2006| Author: Macdonald, Moira | Copyright information

Byline: Moira Macdonald

Oct. 20--Sofia Coppola specializes in lost girls, wafting through a mysteriously foreign world. In "The Virgin Suicides," that world was adolescence; in "Lost in Translation," it was Japan, seen through the soft eyes of a young, directionless American. In Coppola's third and most ambitious film, "Marie Antoinette," Kirsten Dunst plays the young French queen, brought from her Austrian home as a teenager in 1770 to marry the future King Louis XVI (...

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