Marie Antionette booed at Cannes
Sofia Coppola's Marie Antionette screened at Cannes and received a less than favourable response. According to reports it's been booed. There are some more positive comments, but in the whole it sounds quite negative.
From Rope of Silicon:
...when Marie Antoinette made its debut at the Cannes Film Festival today Variety reports that it was met with a "cacophony of Gallic-accented boos"......Variety goes on to say that early reviews out of France painted the film in a particularly favorable light and audiences have been flocking to the screenings...
...One critic was quoted saying, "It's Marie Antoinette gets bored, Marie Antoinette goes shopping, Marie Antoinette gets laid."...from Le Monde's Thomas Sotinel who was quoted saying, "All of Sofia Coppola's films tell the same story, about a young girl struggling to find her place. That's what this film is about."
Still, that's not so positive, however what must be remembered is that these are comments from critics, pah, what do they know? However the problem with the film appears to reflect the comments above, it's more that it looks at a big period of French history in an extremely simplistic way and turns the French Queen into a character that sounds like she should be in Clueless.
The trailers seem to reflect this idea too, and reflect what the critics are saying. The question is though does this way of looking at the characters life work? Is it a good movie? That can't really be answered until more of the real audience see the film. Me, well I'm swaying towards the negative so far, but then I have ever since I saw the trailers.
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