Liked This Movie A Lot. Beautiful Scenery, Costumes, Castles. Kirsten Dunst Played the part of Marie Antoinette Wonderfully.

not great. not a good rendition of the story.

This film by Sofia Coppola has lavish settings, beautiful costumes and is a feast for the eyes. However, there is not much of a story and the film ended without the most crucial part, i.e. the tragic ending for the queen and her husband. Go for it if you just want good eye candy. The rock sound track is also off the mark for this film.

Wow. Really bad. One of the rare period films that I wasn't able to suffer through even for the sake of the splendid costumes and sets. Nothing happens, the acting is pretty basic, the accents are all over the world, the lines drop like stones, and what is up with the modern music soundtrack?

I was inspired to watch this video dramatization by my daughter. It is a little slow moving, and stops short of Marie Antoinette's trial. When we searched for this title , a documentary type version was listed and I watched that. She is portrayed at her trial on that one.

Being an amateur student of Marie Antoinette, I have to admit I was quite alarmed when I heard about this particular movie verson of her life. Marie Antionetted as rock star? Well, my misgivings were for naught because Coppala creates a visual masterpiece. Kirsten Dunst does an excellent job of playing the doomed Queen when she was in her element as the hostess of Versailles, and most famous Queen of her day. She was a celebrity in the way we know it today. But celebrity also has it's drawbacks as Marie found out late in the movie when the French public were creating the most outrageous lies about her. While this is not as good as the Antonia Fraser book the movie was based on, it did a credible job of portraying Marie Antoinette as a somewhat spoiled child having a great time.....until political events forced her to grow up. I hope for a sequal to this movie which deals with what happens after Versailles is stormed by the mob. Recommended viewing.

This was an okay movie. I thought that Kirsten Dunst was a perfect choice to play Marie Antoinette. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, but she played the part to perfection. Some of the music didn't go with the scenes, and it was kinda slow at some parts, but overall I liked it. Some might disagree, but I thought that the ending was perfect!!! And I didn't find it to Hollywood!! I love that whole time with royalty, and planned marriages. I find it interesting, so this was a good movie for me. Overall, I would say that it's worth your time.

This movie comes off a little too Hollywood for me. Excellent settings, but not a lot of true history.

It shows all the frivolity she engaged in within the French court, but none of the actual work she did/attempted. Visually, droolicious costumes and settings. I found the modern rock music kinda jarring at first, until I got into the groove that the whole movie is trying to compare the aristocratic lifestyle of Versailles to Paris Hilton and company (that's the main point I saw...clothes, parties and gossiping like high-school fashion-girls). What was lacking was plot: the girl adapting to her new foreign court, ok, trying to get her mentally-absent husband to do his job (*cough*) ok, but there was a serious lag in the middle until the French Revolution came apparently out of nowhere (they could have given some foreshadowing with, say, panning over 'normal' city conditions and then into the palaces). Has *some* interesting aspects and significant eye-candy, but don't expect to be on the edge of your seat.

Visually it was a gorgeous movie. However the story didn't do much for me, nor the acting.