This gauzy interpretation of the French icon as the life of a decadent paparazzi princess is Versailles via Vogue, a frivolous New Romantic confection in which history is less important than emotional veracity.
Ebert & Roeper
October 25, 2006
It's very pretty and occasionally amusing but also dreadfully dull for long, long stretches.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
December 17, 2007
A visually scrumptious version of France's iconic but ill-fated Austrian-born queen, Marie Antoinette.
The director squanders a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to film on the grounds and inside the Palace of Versailles. It's the trappings we get, in richly reproduced costumes and all-over gilt furniture, at the expense of any substance.
Little happens for much of Marie Antoinette, but Coppola is a visual storyteller, and with her first big canvas she creates a giddy world at Versailles in color and light.
